What is the difference btw Windows XP Professional and Corporate??

[slimbim]

what is the difference between the professional and corporate version of XP? All I heard is that corporate version does not need to be activated. Does Professional version need to be activated? Also, which version is better?

 

[Pqee]

As far as I understand it XP comes in 2 flavors, Pro and Home each with a slightly different different feature set. I believe the Corporate edition is the Pro edition but with a volume license which doesn't require activation.

 

[slimbim]

so windowx xp professional still requires that activation thing?

 

[MoMeanMugs]

Yes

 

[Nothinman]

Eventually all MS products will, most of them do already.

 

[NeoMadHatter]

Corporate is for corporations. not out for regular computer users like us. and yes, it still requires activation. as does office xp and visual studio.net
also, corporate is a flavor of illegal software groups, of which many people have gotten xp pro from for free and do not have to activate it.

 

[Nothinman]

Actually the real MS corporate edition doesn't require activation, that's why it was distributed by the warez groups.

 

[slimbim]

Will most of the software that works on windows 2000 work in windows XP?

Thanks.

 

[clicknext]

Yes, pretty much all. Just not drivers...

 

[BFG10K]

Most Windows 2000 drivers will work on Windows XP. AFAIK XP's driver model wasn't significantly changed from 2000's, if at all.

 

[PrinceofWands]

To sum it all up, corporate XP is good, non-corporate XP is bad.

 

[Soda]

BFG10K -> Not many Win2k drivers will work on WinXP. There are some significant changes between 2k and XP.

Almost any program with drivers will have to be updated when upgrading to XP. Not all, but quite a few though.

Even if the drivers work on XP it won't give optimal performance unless you have XP specific drivers.

About the corp vs. non-corp edition...

The Corp edition is a multi-licenced version of WinXP which doesn't need to be activated and as writing by others here, the flavor of Warez groups.

XP Home Edition is the lowbudget version of the Pro version with many of the "expert" features disabled.

Regards

Casper