Windows XP Professional X64 Edition - Advantages

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.