Microsoft Windows XP Professional UPGRADE with SP2

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Microsoft Windows XP Professional UPGRADE with SP2

by Microsoft Software

List Price: $199.99 You pay: $165.49

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Rating: 3 out of 5 - Microsoft...what can I say
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!!!!

Rating: 3 out of 5 - Amazingly overpriced for a captive audience
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.

Rating: 4 out of 5 - Exactly what I wanted...
This was exactly what I wanted and delivery was very prompt. I will order from them again.

Rating: 1 out of 5 - Another Crash for Microsoft!
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 ... Read More

Rating: 4 out of 5 - Xp Pro is a big improvement over win2000
I agree, Windows could improve thier products but I'm not going to jump on the Linux bandwagon just yet. You can get this product Academic for 84.00 on the web. I own several copies for my home computers. If you network and use wireless this is the program to use. I use both Unix and Windows at work and the Unix is far more stable. Compatibility issues are what kills Unix/Linux for now and Linux is not user friendly. In the future Apple and Linux will have some of the same issues as Windows to deal ... Read More

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