Just thought I'd toss in my two cents, since I beat my head against
Windows for a living. I know a lot of people have already mentioned
these, but here we go anyway:
Home- Can connect to a Remote Desktop session, but not create one. Can
be on a workgroup, but won't join a domain, which inherently limits
Active Directory interaction. I don't recall what sort of limitations
exist in terminal services, but I'm willing to bet there are some. Local
security policies are simplified and there's a lack of available
snap-ins to edit them. Older renditions of Home wouldn't give you the
option to run a repair install, but this seems to have been added in
later copies. Advanced file sharing, and thus file permissions, can only
be accessed in safe mode, same for the local admin account. I don't
_think_ Home has IIS ready to be installed.
I don't think any of that would impact most programs you'd be building,
but only you would know for sure. Most Windows programs run pretty well
from 2000 and up, with a fair amount running from Win98 and up.
With all that said, I'd likely still buy Pro, because it's only $50 more
from Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16832116059
And Remote Desktop is cool, if you ever do run it on a separate machine.
I didn't really care until I saw that you could bring local resources
into the session, like the cd-rom, or a flash drive, which made remote
software installs that much easier.
Good luck,
Fargo
Anway there is a $100 difference between XP home and XP professional and looking at the blurbs on PC Connection I realy don't see what the difference are and if they would matter to me!
Could someone please enlighten me?
Thanks,
- karen
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