[AccessD] OT: WinXP Personal

Lambert,

Up until WinXP there was no such dichotomy as home OS v. business OS.
Before WinNT 3.5 all M$ users, home and business, ran on Win 3.1, Win
3.11 Workgroup, or DOS.  WinNT 3.5 was the first 32-bit OS while the
Win9x versions continued with the 16-bit kernel from Win 3.1.

The 32-bit OSs were aimed at those of us that needed more stable OSs
than what the 16-bit OSs could offer.  Although this market is primarily
businesses, there are a lot of developers such as myself that adopted
the 32-bit OSs early on.  I got WinNT 4.0 for my home PC shortly after
it came out and have just upgraded to WinXP Pro on my home PC.

Charles Wortz
Software Development Division
Texas Education Agency
1701 N. Congress Ave
Austin, TX 78701-1494
512-463-9493
CWortz at tea.state.tx.us



-----Original Message-----
From: Heenan, Lambert [mailto:Lambert.Heenan at AIG.com] 
Sent: Wednesday 2003 Jul 09 15:00
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: WinXP Personal

Ho hum...

With a data sample of four (major versions of a 32 bit MS operating
system, home and office use) the use of the word "usually" is doubtful
at best (statistically speaking, and we should all know what Benjamin
Disraeli had to say about statistics *).

The approximate release dates were:

Business O/S (workstation versions - not server versions - that's a
whole other story)

NT 3.5, 1992	
NT 4.0, 1996
Win 2000,1999
Win XP, 2002

Home O/S

Win 95, 1995
Win 98, 1998
Win 98 SE, 1999?
Win ME, 2000
Win XP home, 2002

With the solitary exception of XP, none of these home O/Ss was ever
characterized as a "home version/edition" of any of the business O/Ss.
Nor have any home O/Ss been release with any regard to what was going on
in the Business O/S side of the house, until XP, nor was there release
timetable tied to that of the business O/Ss. They are two different
animals. Home O/Ss are "designed" to just about run and not lock the
poor users out because they forget their password. They all are
deficient one way or another when compared to their distant relatives in
the business O/S range.

Lambert :-)

* Benjamin Disraeli said "There are lies, damned lies and statistics."
(often attributed to Mark Twain - though HE sites Disraeli in his
autobiography.)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Drew Wutka [SMTP:DWUTKA at marlow.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 09, 2003 2:24 PM
> To:	'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject:	RE: [AccessD] OT: WinXP Personal
> 
> The Home and Professional editions usually aren't released on the same

> day. What I mean by Home 'release' is that it's an OS release 'update'

> to the home version, which usually is close to the next release of the

> current 'professional' package.  NT came before 98, and ME came before

> W2k...I don't
> know if XP was released with Home and Pro at the exact same time or
not.
> 
> Drew