Welcome to Alan Simpson’s Windows XP Bible.
Professional
Edition versus Home Edition Microsoft Windows XP is the latest version
of the widely used Windows operating system. This book covers both the
Professional edition and Home edition of Windows XP. On the surface, the
two editions are virtually identical. Skills you learn on one edition
will carry right over to the other edition. The Professional edition
offers some extra tools that are of interest to professional corporate
system administrators and network administrators. The Professional
edition is the only one to support the use of multiple monitors,
however, which might be of interest to home and small business users as
well. If you’re wondering which version to buy, you might want to review
Chapter 34, which covers the features of the Professional edition that
aren’t available in the Home edition.
Who Should Read This Book
This book is written for people who are not professional
computer programmers or corporate administrators. It’s written for that
enormous class of people commonly referred to as users in the computer
biz. These are people whose job requires them to use a computer as an
adjunct to their “real job,” which isn’t necessarily computer science. I
think it’s safe to say that about 99 percent of the jobs in this world
fall into that non-computer science category. ...