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I'd expand on "network" a bit. Home is fine for most everything, including internet use, and the two are the same under the skin, but Pro has additional features enabled that help with management and configuration. These extras can be hacked/coaxed out of Home, but it's simpler to install the real thing, especially if you're likely to worry about a FrankenWindows being responsible for problems.
Ditto on the OEM/Teacher/Student discount versions. I've bought legit copies for as low as $50, though MS has clamped down on many of the resellers.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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