Advantages
- Can address 128 GB memory (many consumer motherboards supported 8 GB in 2006, 16 GB and greater is common on high-end motherboards).
- Uses the Windows Server 2003 kernel which is newer than 32-bit Windows XP and has improvements intended to improve scalability. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition also introduces Kernel Patch Protection (also known as PatchGuard) which can help improve security by helping to eliminate rootkits.
- Supports GPT-partitioned disks for data (but not booting) after SP1, which allows using disks greater than 2 TB to be used as a single GPT partition for storing data.
- Allows faster encoding of audio/video, higher performance video gaming and faster 3D rendering in software optimized for 64-bit hardware.
- Ships with Internet Information Services 6.0 (all other 32-bit versions of Windows XP have IIS 5.1).
- Ships with Windows Media Player 10 (the 32-bit Windows XP Professional has WMP 9 as of SP2 and shipped with WMP 8).
- Benefits from IPsec new features and improvements made in Windows Server 2003.
- Remote Desktop server supports Unicode keyboard input, client-side time-zone redirection, GDI+ rendering primitives for improved performance, FIPS encryption, fallback printer driver, auto-reconnect and new Group Policy settings.
- The Files and Settings Transfer Wizard supports migrating settings from 32-bit Windows XP and 64-bit Windows XP PCs.
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Famous quotes containing the word advantages:
“Men hear gladly of the power of blood or race. Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea, or to local wealth, as mines and quarries, nor to laws and traditions, nor to fortune, but to superior brain, as it makes the praise more personal to him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When the manipulations of childhood are a little larceny, they may grow and change with the child into qualities useful and admire in the grown-up world. When they are the futile struggle for love and concern and protection, they may become the warped and ruthless machinations of adults who seek in the advantages of power what they could never win as children.”
—Leontine Young (20th century)
“To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel.... Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)