is there a difference between xp home oem and retail?
and while im at it is there a difference between home, pro, and mce

 

Retail comes in a box, OEM doesn't

 

+1

 

retail vs oem - packaging
home vs pro vs mce - crap that comes with it

 

I thought OEM could only be installed on one machine, but with retail you can transfer it to another computer if you wanted to. I may be wrong though.

 

you know im asking about i386 between the versions

 

There is install restrictions on a OEM and Retail version but I can't remember off the top of my head what they are.

Home, Pro, and MCE all are different in the sense that Home doesn't come with the ability to log onto domains and things like RDP installed by default. MCE is basically a program addon to XP Pro that can be run independently or upon startup; There is a hack to get XP Pro to work with MCE if you look hard enough.

OEM is perfectly fine for most people.

 

1. no.... well kind of: keys wont swap.
2. yes

 

there is no difference in the i386 between the versions

 

this is what i've read/seen.

this is why some one was able to create a 5in1 xp cd