text: what's the difference between win nt & xp based on the user's & technical points of view? the criteria for evaluating win nt and xp may be based on the following:   1) performance: othroughput (system manager)  oturnaround (batch user)  oresponse time (interactive user)  ofairness  oreal-time contraints  oetc.  2) reliability  omean time between failures  omean time to repair   3) maintainability  oeasy to debug  oeasy to extend  oeasy to port nt seems more ideal for business communications, though i have not had a need to research this product. as dramaguy states, a resource more geared at windows server.  otherwise, i am uncertain of this product.