Hi Guys,

My decoder ring bleeped me..............."old fart needed"

Back in the days when I was young and handsome (and you had to watch out for dinosaur turds on the sidewalk/pavement) there was Win 3.x This was basically a commercial system, because computers were very expensive, modems ran at 9600 or 14400 Baud, and so on.

The came the "Great M$ Schism" They developed Win95 and Win NT (4.0) This was the end of the 486 era, start of the PI, and "home computing" as we know it was just about to start. Sure there had been games and educational machines and people like Tandy (Radio Shack) and Amstrad had brought prices of "real" computers way down.

M$ saw a domestic market, but still wanting to rip off its commercial user market, decided to split its product base. This gave us the 9x family of Windows, that ended with Millenium Edition.

The restore feature was intended to help computer illiterate home users get their systems back quickly. Commercial networked systems did not need that because good guys like ourselves did daily backups etc. Similarly USB was for home users not commercial ones?

The last point at which this was true was Win2k (actually NT5) and Millenium Edition.

Then came XP.....there is a "home" and a "professional" edition, the difference being the networking support (just like Win 3.10 v's Win 3.11)

AFAIK because Windows 2000 is a commercial offering, it is all called "professional".........you have:

1.workstation
2.server
3.advanced server

Those are the only varietals that I am aware of.

I think that is pretty much correct?

Cheers