>>Does the Home version of XP have IIS? Several of my books indicate it would when released but they were published months ago. The final version of XP Home may not have IIS 5.1, in which case I will have to go with the pro version.
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>I thnk you should go with Pro version anyways. There is an IIS like service thing in Home (I think, the last I used HOME was RC1), but I wouldnt' recommend putting it on the web. WHy? Since Home is a dumbed down Pro, all users of Home are considered Admin, and security is nearly non-existant. Not my idea of a web server :-)

Mike;

Thank you for the advice. Would you recommend Home for a developer? I want to do some work with .NET. If I were to use XP as a web server I would go with the pro version.

Tom