Essay - Windows Me vs. Windows 2000 Professional Introduction Windows Millennium Edition...

Windows ME vs. Windows 2000 Professional

Introduction

***** Millennium Edition (ME) and Windows 2000 Professional are desktop operating systems (OS) that were released in the year 2000 by Microsoft Corporation, the unveil*****g of Windows 200 Professional preceding that of ***** ME ***** a few months. Both ***** systems were improvements on the existing Windows software at ***** time, i.e., the ***** 2000 Professional was a follow-up on ***** Windows NT 4.0 and the Windows ME was the successor of Windows 98 Second ***** (SE). They are still two of the most important operating systems for ***** users, although targeted at different categories of users. While the Windows 200 Professional is generally meant for the corporate and business institutions, the features of Windows ME suit the home and general computer users. In this paper we will discuss the main ***** of the two operating systems in order to comp***** the two. While doing so, we shall look at the types ***** application programs *****y need to run; their networking environment; and their overall manageability, reliability, and security requirements.

***** Features *****arison of the two operating ***** would become clearer if ***** look at the key features of both the systems

***** ME

Being designed specifically for the home-computer user, Windows ME includes special features for improved digital media and entertainment capabilities, enhanced home networking tools, PC Health applications and a redesigned Help Center to make setup ***** troubleshooting faster and easier. An ***** design feature ***** distinguished Windows ***** from Windows 2000 P is that the *****mer is based on the D***** ***** ***** 9x series ra*****r than the Windows NT. However, Windows ME has borrowed some features developed for ***** 2000 such as the desktop interface and the new TCP/IP stack that connects to the Internet. (Kennedy, et al.)

Digital Media and Entertainment

Apart from built-in ***** for h*****ling multimedia video, still photography, music, and games, including Windows Movie Maker (WMM), Windows Image Acquisition (WIA), My Pictures folder, and Windows Media Player, ***** ME has a ***** new fe*****ture called "Windows Movie Maker." WMM enables transfer of ***** and analog video from a video camera or a VCR to the computer's hard-disk drive for editing and provides basic ***** editing ***** ***** as shot detection, linear *****, ***** video clip drag-and-drop. (Ibid.) Improved Windows Media format video compression technology permits storage of up to 20 hours of video on 1 gigabyte (GB) of disk space. The WIA feature facilitates the acquiring and importing of images ***** cameras and scanners while ***** "***** Pictures *****" is useful for storing ***** organizing images and visual snaps. (Ibid.)

Several other multi-media *****s such as the ***** Media Player (WMP) that had to be installed previously as separate s*****tware are now part of Windows ME. For example, ***** ***** has been especially ***** for ***** ME and includes a new graphical *****, better audio and ***** playback capability, and support ***** the latest audio, video, and image file *****s. It also has enhanced a