For those that don't know about Microsoft's latest update..

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Originally Posted by RawAlex

XP home - now there is a winning product! A dumb, neutered, full frontal lobotomy version of an OS that needs all it's brains to survive. A bad idea, bad choice, delete and install XP pro or just don't bother using the machine. A waste of space.

What feature(s) missing from XP Home vs. XP Pro are there that you can't live without?

I not a big fan of Microsoft products, but I can remember the misery of supporting NT 3.5 and 4.0, and XP Home seems to be a fairly decent desktop OS compared to where Windows was at 9 years ago. After installing Cygwin and a few other tweaks my Presario Laptop with XP Home is almost the Powerbook that I really wanted, but at 1/3 the cost.