Windows XP Professional

Pros: Compatibility, Stability

Cons: Slow on older computers, price

The Bottom Line: If you want a reliable, easy to use Operating system like most people do, Go with Windows XP Professional.

Review: Windows XP Professional offers standard reliability and performance. Windows XP Professional includes all of the features and options as Windows XP Home, and then more. First, if you currently have Windows 98, Win98SE, or WinME, then you need to ...

Pros: Uses a significantly less amount of system resources than Windows Vista

Cons: The graphics are not as nice as vista, but runs faster.

The Bottom Line: I would get XP professional over any of the other Windows operating systems because of it's speed and reliability.

Review: As of now it is working perfectly. I like the speed and the graphics. I have yet to get any blue error screens. I have this operating system on all of my computers and have not had any problems. Unlike Microsoft windows 98 where I had several errors and ...

Pros: Great features with great stability

Cons: Takes too much Memory and Hard disk space

The Bottom Line: I recommend everyone to buy this product who wants a best stable operating system with great features as it has all of it

Review: Really its the best Windows Operating System ever developed by Microsoft. It has all features that a operating system should have,as it has great visual appearance and great stability compared to earlier version of windows like windows 98,me.Earlier ...

Pros: Nice combination of all windows

Cons: Updates are difficult to find

Review: Microsoft has developed a unique type of windows that is both for indivisual use and for office use also.It has many features that were not present in the previous windows.The most loving improvement is the use of high resolutuon backgrounds that are ...

Pros: Everything so so good about it. I instaled on both my computers.

Cons: I don't think there is a single bad thing that i can say about this.

Review: Its really great i would never use anything diffrent. Not even the new vista it takes to much space. This is so good i refered it to all my ...

Pros: u use it and u will find the difference

Cons: great thing to be with you and your computer too

Review: I have been using WindowsXP since a long time.....I am loving it so much and this is the best and very user friendly type of Operating system...many people now-a-days are preferring this to use and no one is going after any other OperatingSystems's....I ...

Pros: Secure, stable,automatically updates itself and great compatibility

Cons: Too many updates. Activation and re-activation can be a pain sometimes.

The Bottom Line: The bottom line has a Commodore 64 with a tape drive!

Review: Microsoft launched its latest operating system in October of 2001. It has been over five years and we still haven’t seen a new OS from Microsoft on the market yet. Microsoft has religiously released a new Windows version every two or three years ...

Pros: Improved stability over Home edition. Improved memory and file systems.

Cons: Activation requirement can be a pain if you change hardware.

The Bottom Line: XP is a vast improvement over 98, professional is much more stable than Home edition in several areas. MS policy of activation can get aggravating.

Review: I've had windows xp on several machines, home edition that is. Had lots of mysterious little problems with home edition because I change hardware fairly often. The last time I rebuilt my main machine I decided to spring for a copy of professional. ...

Pros: extremely easy to install easier than Linux to manage applications and data

Cons: still plagued with regular updates that aren't always beneficial.

The Bottom Line: If you don't have the time to learn Linux or the applications that your livelihood depend on are slaves to Windows products then XP is THE way to go.

Review: I'm not a huge Bill Gates fan so don't let my title fool you, I am an unwilling slave to Windows products. However, after struggling for several days to install Fedora4 on one of my computers, I gave up and purchased my third license of Windows XP Pro. ...

Pros: efficient and reliable; people I speak to have still not migrated away

Cons: not as secure as vista

The Bottom Line: The price here for XP pro is very reasonable indeed, and I very much suspect XP will be with us for a long time yet!

Review: Do you want to buy XP when VISTA is out? Now that VISTA is out I think it would be hard to review XP, without a brief mention about the obvious alternative - VISTA. XP is still a very good OS, it looks and feels similar to VISTA on the outside, but ...