For XP, let's get more specific. Which version? I prefer to use XP-64 on some of the newer machines which do 64 bit processing. Its pretty quick on something built to handle Vista. For any version of M$ whatsoever, I choose 2000 advanced server. Its stable, runs on machines with more then one CPU and in general just won't crash that often. MacAfee makes a nice anti-virus for file servers that may still work.
Of course, any user friendly version of UNIX like PC-BSD or friendly version of Linux is far superior.
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