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List Price: $299.99
Our Price: $269.99
You Save: $ 30.00 (10%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Microsoft
Color: 1-user
EAN: 0805529831278
Feature: Automatically keep your PC up-to-date with the latest security enhancements including the Windows Security Center, Windows Firewall.
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Microsoft Software
Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
Model: E85-02665
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Microsoft Software
Release Date: 2004-09-28
Special Features: nv:Software Type^Operating Systems
Studio: Microsoft Software
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Automatically keep your PC up-to-date with the latest security enhancements including the Windows Security Center, Windows Firewall.
Windows XP Professional provides rich, wireless network support, helping you simply and easily connect to wireless networks whether in your home, office, or out on the road.
Quickly set up and connect all the computers, printers, devices, and an Internet connection in your home with the all new Network Setup Wizard.
Encrypting File System provides an additional level of file protection from hackers and data theft by transparently encrypting files with a randomly generated key.
Clean, simple design of Windows XP Professional puts the features you use most often at your fingertips, helping you find them quickly.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Windows XP Pro is the ideal new solution for your business and advanced home computing needs. Service Packs round up the bug fixes and product updates you need for operating more smoothly. This Service Pack bridges the gaps between the original software and user requests more fully, responding to customer wishes -- and making XP even better. Security Center offers a central control system for your Windows XP security -- work with the firewalls, auto updates and antivirus tools Great news for people sick of pop-up ads - The built-in pop-up blocker controls them, with a new submenu and status bar icons New Add-Ons manager gives you instant access to all the Browser Helper Objects and extensions, enabling and disabling them easily Firewall now has its own control panel, for customizing firewall setting to suit any connection Enhancements to the Windows Update service make installing new updates easy -- you can even choose which ones to install Wireless Networking - Multiple wireless connections to choose from
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Customer Rating:
Summary: so glad to get rid of vista
Comment: this product works great, it is a nice replacement of the default vista that came installed on my laptop. it was a little tricky finding some of the drivers but it was well worth it in the end. it was able to ship nice and quickly and was rather easy to install when it got here.
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Summary: Never got it
Comment: I ordered this item last month. Never got it. sent a email about it never got a answer. It did get charged to my credit card.
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Summary: Unhappy
Comment: I haven't received it yet! I submitted a request for information and haven't even received a reply.
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Summary: Warning this is not the retail but an OEM edition
Comment: There is an important difference when buying software over the counter: it is much more expensive then buying it with a computer. I bought for the company two Dell Vostro systems for roughly 300 USD each and that included normal production desktops for office use and those included Vista Business. So think before you buy because over the counter OS distributions from Windows are expensive.
There is also a support problem when buying this software because it is an OEM edition as you can see on the included product labels, which means if you need support then Microsoft will not help you and refer you back to where you bought it. Not so great.
Also the product lifecycle is ignored here. 2014 may sound far away but most home users have their computers much longer. You will find yourself with a system that is no longer supported by Microsoft with updates after 2014.
WindowsXP Pro is much better then XP Home. Many people have an opinion about this but there are significant differences and we will never deploy an XP Home on our network. Only XP Pro, which is propbably the best version Microsoft made until...
But I have to mention that Vista Business SP1 that we tested recently is stable and as good as the XP SP3 plus some extra's for the users. We are only buying Vista Business at this point. XP Pro may be good and stable but it is an old platform already and Microsoft is focussing on Vista at this point. You have to let go as you did with Windows 2000 Pro which was the best ever distribution a while back if you where running an office network.
I can give you one tip here: If you buy Microsoft OS software then always go for the Business/Pro editions because they are better and contail less software that you don't want anyway. There is so much great free software to give you that other functionality that you do not need to buy an Ultimate version or whatever they will call it in the future.
Just my two cents.
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Summary: Great Version of Windows!
Comment: I myself feel that this is the best version of Windows for the home. (Excluding all of the business/server oriented versions) This is about as rock solid as it gets, and it is the standard amongst computers today.
I had to run out and grab a copy before Microsoft stops selling it. They keep saying they are going to make it go away.
I really love the compatibility with drivers, and everything out there. I will be running it on some of my machines for a long time.
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