Windows 2000/XP Professional

The upgrade to Windows 2000 Professional is Windows XP Professional. The upgrade to Windows 2000 Server will be Windows Server .NET. Windows 2000 and XP Professional are very similar. They both inherit multiple security configuration tools from the Windows 2000 platform – but XP adds some new security features as well. Any study of Windows 2000/XP Professional should keep in mind the numerous Windows 2000 platform security features.