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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 2153044" data-attributes="member: 87">Well I finished my upgrade of XP home to pro today. Last quarter I nearly failed a database course because I was doing the class on XP Home and the program turned out to need features only present in pro.  So I've upgraded to avoid the problem in the future.So, what does Pro have that justifies double the cost?  Not much, but depending on the sites you browse it could be useful.1) Pro allows you to more finely determine what each user can do on your system. In particular you can set up a "power user" account. While power user isn't a full admin account, it does allow legacy applications to perform certain actions so that they will run that wouldn't be possible under the standard windows limited user account.  What this allows is for you to use the power user account in place of running as admin. If a virus does get into the system it's capacity for damage is somewhat curtailed since it lacks the permissions necessary to damage system files.  It isn't as secure as Linux, but it's a step in the right direction.2) Apparently IIS will run on Pro (though I haven't found it yet). I'll need this to develop asp pages.Anyone else familiar with the differences between home and pro?</blockquote>