what is the major difference between windows 2000 and windows xp?

Answer 1

XPis a newer version of 2000 and is more mutimedia & plug and play oriented - they are both babies of NT. One interesting bit of trivia though, under most circumstances Windows 2000 is faster than Windows XP.

Answer 2

Generally, there is no (Obviously seeable) difference in Windows 2000 and Windows XP as Windows XP, is say, an improved Windows 2000. Usually those changes are only made so that non professional computer users can easily use XP more.

However, there are some code changes in XP that could make certain programs that are working in Windows 2000 to be not working in Windows XP and vice versa as well.

Another poster here has posted that Windows 2000 doesnot support NTFS and doesn't support Office XP. These are both lies. Windows 2000 is actually the second Windows OS what natively supports NTFS (The first is Windows NT). Also, Office XP has not yet been locked to be only usable on XP when it was released.

Answer 3

Windows XP supports NTFS and FAT file system
Windows 2000 extends only upto FAT16 and FAT32 file systems
Windows XP has graphic additions with inbuilt features
Windows 2000 has only standard features that are improvements of windows 98
Windows XP supports Office 2000 and Office XP
Windows 2000 supports only Office 2000

Answer 4

microsoft xp is alot easier to use, has alot more auto functionality, you don't have to reboot as much when u load new software for it to work, and it has drivers that it will use for hardware, those are just the simple differences

Answer 5

Check major differences here:-

http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/1/2/71252520-2bb9-43c3-891b-bc09bfdde152/DifferencesBetweenWindowsXPEmbeddedandWindowsXPProfessional.pdf

Sorry I can't write them here.

Answer 6

there was a bigger difference between windows 98 and 98se!

Answer 7

1-the interface has been changed
2-the load fills has been changed

Answer 8

refer to this website

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article10-001