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1.3. Windows XP Home and Professional Editions

Although


only the Home and Professional editions of Windows XP are
covered in this book, there are actually six editions of Microsoft
Windows XP:

• Windows XP Home

• Windows XP Professional

• Windows XP .NET Standard Server

• Windows .NET Enterprise Server

• Windows .NET Datacenter Server

• Windows XP 64-bit^[3]

  ^[3] For more information
  on the 64-bit editions, see http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/.

Although all these editions of XP are similar, only the Home and
Professional editions will be of interest to end users, while the
others are intended for use in large corporations (Enterprise) as
high-end server platforms.

The Home and Professional editions of Windows XP are nearly
identical; the only differences are additional features found in the
Professional edition that will appeal to power users and small
businesses. The primary differences, aside from the price and the
color of the packaging, are shown in Table 1-1.

^[4] Not installed by default. See "Backup".

In addition, Windows XP Professional includes
the following tools and accessories (all documented in Chapter 4):

• Administrative Tools (in the Start menu
  and Control Panel)

• Boot Configuration Manager

• DriverQuery

• Group Policy
  Refresh Utility

• Multi-lingual User Interface (MUI) add-on

• NTFS Encryption Utility

• 
  Offline
  Files and Folders

• OpenFiles

• Performance Log Manager

• Remote Desktop

• Scheduled Tasks Console

• Security Template Utility

• Taskkill

• Tasklist

• Telnet
  Administrator

There's nothing that Windows XP Home edition can do
that the Professional edition can't do; in other
words, the Professional edition is a superset of the Home edition.