Microsoft Windows XP Professional UPGRADE with SP2
 | Format: CD-ROM List Price: $199.99 Our Price: $173.49 Your Save: $ 26.50 ( 13% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Average Customer Rating:   |
Features: 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
Editorial Reviews:
Upgrade only; previous version of XP required Get the most out of your operating system, and avoid the bugs that can slow down your computer's performance. This upgrade combined with the newest Service pack delivers the enhancements you need for a faster, more capable PC. 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 The new Add-Ons manager gives you instant access to all the Browser Helper Objects and extensions, enabling and disabling them easily The 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, if any Wireless Networking - Multiple wireless connections to choose from
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Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Microsoft...what can I say
Comment: This was rather complicated to install and I just don't have to much good to say about microsoft. I'm sure glad I don't have to buy a new license everytime I play my music CD's on a different CD player!!!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazingly overpriced for a captive audience
Comment: At the same time that Microsoft is discontinuing sales for Windows XP, they continue to charge $199 to upgrade XP Home to XP Pro. There is not much additional functionality provided except for the networking support required to allow a computer to join a Domain. Hence companies of any size that require this must pay an artifically-inflated price because they have no option. It is also somewhat buggy in that the upgrade can disable some functions as documented by Microsoft Knowledgebase entries.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Exactly what I wanted...
Comment: This was exactly what I wanted and delivery was very prompt. I will order from them again.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Another Crash for Microsoft!
Comment: I ordered this upgrade product after careful review and preparation, I do have a PhD from MIT in EECS, and actually am back doing research at MIT after a few years, so I assumed that this would work and that I had a modicum of intelligence to deal with a Microsoft product. Bad idea. I loaded this on my laptop, a good trusty Dell, and it removed my old WIN2K and then when it was halfway thru loading XP it crashed, "FATAL ERROR".
Now I had a dead laptop. Off to Microsoft Customer Service in Bombay, they were patient and we found that there was a corrupted file on the disk. They told me I would have to mail in the disks and order a complete and new XP load for which I would have to pay an additional fee, for now upgrades would not function. I then told them how I would file a lawsuit in two days in the Newark Federal Court in a Class Action against Microsoft, they then after checking with the Supervisor agreed to give me a new key to load an old copy of XP. Five hours later I am back to the beginning and then ten hours later I have most of my files back up again. I did lose a few because I had used the keys before and they required a new purchase, Adobe was the number one issue there.
Thus my advice to anyone even thinking of this, DO NOT EVER CHANGE! Microsoft quality control appears in my opinion to be quite deficient. Bombay can become very helpful but Redmond is not. I measure lost hours of humanity and its creativity dealing with Microsoft issues in Megagates, a Megagate is one second of human creativity lost trying to deal with a Microsoft glitch, multiply that times the number of users and one can see the great lost to humanity wasted on these poorly engineered products. Imagine if Civil Engineers designed bridges the way Microsoft does its software!
However if you want to upgrade, here is a bit of advice:
1. Do a clean sweep, buy the total system not the upgrade.
2. This is critical, before doing anything, check all programs which have authentication keys and properly unload them to be certain you can reload after you reformat the disk. For example, Adobe 8 will wipe itself out and if you have loaded your two copies, you will have to buy a new one again. Same for Quick Books and many others. If you fail this step it will be very costly!
3. Always back up everything. Always back up the registry, even if you are dumping it.
4. Watch out for the BIOS changes, for that is the way an OEM Activation Code is checked, and you do not want to play with that!
5. If you are also going to add hardware remember that every time you turn the machine on or daily, whichever comes first, Microsoft is checking your configuration. If you change too many things in an upgrade, they will disconnect your OS! So before you do the sweep, and with your Internet connection off, that means no internal cards etc, make the change, then clean the files, and do a fresh load. It will only take a day of your life or so.
6. Write everything you see down! Write everything you do down. Stay close to a phone, there may still be a Microsoft gremlin somewhere!
Good Luck, Yes XP is better, and no I still do not like Vista. It is like being forced to watch someone else's 35 mm slides from their first vacation to Hawaii.
Customer Rating:
Summary: XP for Me is Solid and Good
Comment: I have XP running on a bootcamp partition on my MacBook and it is doing just fine. I spend most of my working time in Word, hardly ever using any of the other programs in the Office suite. However, I use the Adobe products Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator a whole bunch. Other than that I play solitaire, watch videos and, of course, use both Explorer and Firefox when I go online. That's about it for me, software wise, and XP handles it all without fail, without crashing and without giving me any headaches.
And I will miss it when I upgrade to Vista, however my machine can handle the upgrade. If yours can't, then I'd recommend you stay with XP. It's solid and good. Vista may be better, but it's not worth buying a new computer over.
Accessories:
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Technical Details
Batteries Included: 0Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Microsoft
Color: 1-user
EAN: 0805529831285
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: E85-02666
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: Windows 2000
Publisher: Microsoft Software
Release Date: 2004-09-28
Special Features: nv:Software Type^Operating Systems
Studio: Microsoft Software
