Windows XP: Look Past the Bad Press
BusinessWeek | at | by Mike
Something very important has been lost in the noise, however. XP is the most significant Microsoft product for consumers and small business since Windows 95 was released six years ago. With XP, Microsoft finally leaves behind the 20-year-old legacy of MS-DOS and builds instead on the much more solid foundation of the business-oriented Windows NT and 2000. And where networking was always a function grafted onto Windows 95 and its progeny, XP is built from the ground up as a networking operating system. An XP computer expects to be hooked up to a network, even if it's only a dial-up connection to the Internet. The payoff is especially great for laptops used in more than one networking setup, say at home and in the office. For corporations that have been running Windows 2000, XP is an incremental improvement. For consumers and small businesses, it's a big deal.