There are hundreds of compelling reasons to get Windows XP Professional - these are just the top 10

Windows Messenger

• The easy way to communicate and collaborate in real time on your computer. You can see the online status of your contacts and choose to communicate with them through text, voice, or video with better performance and higher quality.

• Allows you to remotely access your desktop computer from another computer running Windows 95 or later, giving you access to all of your data and applications even when you're not in your office.

• Provides support for secured access, as well as performance improvements for wireless networks.

• Allows you to have a friend or IT professional remotely control your computer to demonstrate a process or help solve a problem.

• Allows you to get to your most commonly used tasks quickly, thanks to a cleaner design and new visual cues.

• A single computer desktop can be displayed on two monitors driven off of a single display adapter - a particularly useful feature for laptop users.

• Allows you to migrate your data and settings from an old computer to a new one.

• Allows group policies and roaming user profiles, simplifies desktop and user management for IT administrators.

• Provides a high level of protection from hackers and data theft by transparently encrypting files with a randomly generated key.

• Allows you to easily create, read, and edit documents in many different languages.