Seeing that some people often find Chinese, English is exempt from XP, find a lot of version and I don't know the use of that, let's release the true meaning of Microsoft's horror numbers, please laugh! 1. Retail [Full Packaged Product (FPP)]: The retail version is to see the kind of beautiful packaging in major software stores. You can upgrade installation or new installation. But it is necessary to activate, the machine configuration is replaced, and Microsoft is to be notified, it is more painful. 2, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacture): Random version can only ship with the machine, can not retail, so it is called a random version. Can only be installed newly installed, and cannot be upgraded from the old operating system. If you buy a notebook or a brand computer, there will be random software. Packaging is unlike a retail version, usually only one CD and instructions (authorization). This system usually drivers, and the current OEM version is rarely installed in the CD, or the restoring disk, or the hard disk image. 3, Upgrade: Upgraded version is not detailed, the earth people know. The same is true, but the price is much cheap. You can only upgrade the installation. If you want to install it, the installer checks the old operating system CD and you can have it. Everyone is estimated that this version will not be needed. 4, Beta: The version of the beta will have been adding new features. 5, RC (Release.candidate): The biggest difference between the issuance candidate version and the Beta version is that the beta phase will have been joining new features, but it has reached the RC version, almost will not join new features, but focused on the error! RC1 represents the first edition of the editor. Really 253 Microsoft, what RC thinks, is actually the latest updated Beta. 6, RTM (Release.ta.manufacturing) is officially in front of the retail store, takes a period of time to block, packaging, distribution, so the program code must be completed for a period before the official release, this completed program code is Final .code, this time Windows.xp development is complete, foreign media is called with Windows Xp.goes.gold. After the program code is developed, you should send the mother to the factory under the factory. This version is called RTM version. Therefore, the RTM version of the program code must be the same as the official version. However, there is also a different place in the official version: For example, the official version cannot be upgraded. If the upgrade version is new to install, you will check the old operating system CD, these are RTM and official version, but their main program code all the same. Strictly said that this version is still a FPP retail version, which needs to be activated. 7. Finally, our protagonist Vol appease. (Volume Licensing for Organization): Group Batch License (a large number of procurement license contracts). Maybe someone will think this is not a VLO? In fact, Vol is the first 3 letters of Volume, not the alphabetic abbreviation of 3 words. For example, the VOL version of English WXP Pro is wxpvol_en, where WX is Windows XP, P is Professional (no HOME version), and Vol indicates that the group batch license version, EN is an English. The access route is mainly the group purchase, and some MSDN users can also get.
