RE: XP Home or Pro?

My condolences. On Saturday, I did a 5.4 upgrade for a client. We got to
talking about their need to upgrade some of their PC's. I told her to buy
the new PC's "naked" and use their enterprise license of XP PRO rather than
deal with the support issues Vista will introduce into their environment.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 708-425-4198
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of derhamj
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 5:10 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: XP Home or Pro?

Home both Home and Pro
Work XP

I would not upgrade the Home edition on an AMD E-Machine because that's my
ladies and she doesn't like change but I am aleady at XP on my Lap top and
as I have already told you have entered the "Trail of Tears" with a Vista
machine. Spent over 3 hours on the phone today trying to resolve a Vista
Network problem.
Looking forward to more tomorrow.

Jack Derham
Direct Systems, Inc.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 1:30 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: XP Home or Pro?

Although in absolute terms this is kind of a PC question, I'm hoping David
will be OK with it as I need the widest consensus I can get.

Here's the question.

What flavor of XP (Home or Pro) do you use: 

A) At work

B) At home

C) If you use "Home" in either location - would you consider upgrading to
"Pro" in order to evaluate a piece of software (and yes I know there's no
real reason to restrict it - but ...) or would you simply ignore it and move
on.

Hopefully this won't degenerate into an "MS is wonderful/sucks" debate -
this is just information I am seeking to assist a non-System i software
vendor in shaping their approach to our market. 

Jon Paris
Partner400

www.Partner400.com