| Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition FULL VERSION with SP2 | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $199.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 28
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 95, Windows Xp
Color: 1-user
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Full Version with SP2
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 7.9 x 2
MPN: n09-00984
Model: N09-00984
UPC: 805529831414
EAN: 0805529831414
ASIN: B00022PTRU
Release Date: September 28, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition FULL VERSION with SP2 October 30, 2008
I was ripped off, the product did not load correctly, after 9 tries and various help desk calls, I gave up!
 Man, I hate Windows. October 23, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I only run this product out of necessity, and even then it's in VMware Fusion 2 on my Mac. Oh, yes, I used to have PCs, and I used Windows. 3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP... It's all the same. All MS seems to do is pile more code on top of older code, and patch it daily to make it stay together.
Bottom line: This is fine for getting some PC-only work done on your Mac, but don't put yourself through it if you can use a different OS like Linux or OS X. Windows is a serious pain in the butt. Everything is a struggle. It's not at all intuitive. While OS X does things like read and write .PDF files natively and plays DVDs without paying for a plug-in, Windows makes each little thing you want to do require extra software, extra drivers, extra licensing fees, and a lot of crossed fingers hoping that these components don't cancel each other out.
I'm hoping to try Vista some time. It may have had a bad launch, but at least Vista isn't a 13-year-old product that just has bugfixes and patches over it to modernize it. At the root, Windows XP is just the final version of the beta we called Windows 95.
Skroo'd my HDD, missing features XP had. October 8, 2008
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
I used Vista Home for about 3 months on a new PC. Each piece of hardware I purchased for this PC mentioned it was 'vista compatible', so they're out of excuses for the complete failure to adequately 'operate' my 'system'.
At the near 3 month mark, I had a 'Blue screen of Death' while playing 'The Witcher' on Steam. After this BSOD, the hard drive was not only unable to boot, it froze my system before I was even able to enter CMOS. I had to unplug the drive to get to CMOS and change boot priority to CD-ROM. I booted to the vista CD and tried to format and reinstall. When selecting the Vista-Skroot drive in the installer, **THE INSTALLER BSOD'D!!**. Incredible. I've been building windows PCs since I was in my early teens, and I've never seen that before.
Vista BSODs were somewhat common in all games I played on this system... I'd have one perhaps once every other play session. I'd call it 1 BSOD per 5 hours of game play. This happened with an array of different games by different developers (Dawn of War, Rainbow six, Ghost Recon, Witcher, Team Fortress 2, several others). A subset of these games I had owned and played on XP, and I **DID NOT** have this frequent BSOD problem. Perhaps it was my particular choice of 'Vista Approved' Hardware... Not sure.
At this point I don't care. I recommend holding out on XP until Windows 7 (aka Blackcomb aka Vienna) is released.
I also want to mention that Vista Home is missing some features I enjoyed that XP. I have an linux fileserver with an NFS share. On Vista Home, I am deliberately prevented from mounting this share without upgrading to a more expensive version. I'm sure this is true for a handful of features.
Please avoid this buggy, over-hyped windows release.
It's Windows October 6, 2008
It's XP. It was fairly easy to install but didn't format more than one sector. The screensaver works intermittently. That being said it runs much faster than Vista and makes a good little second computer OS.
 didn't kill my MBP : ) September 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this for my MacBook Pro. using bootcamp it worked fine; although the install failed the first time, but i figured since it was windows, working on the first try was too much to expect. I was going to give it only three stars because I am disappointed in just how bare bones it is right out of the box, but since it hasn't crashed my mac yet and its not Vista, i give it four stars
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