Jody, That is indeed what they say and it wasn't an issue for me since I had XP home on a PC already. I also have a laptop with XP Pro and Newlydraw runs just fine on it, however like most new laptops it doesn't have a parallel port so I don't know if it will output to the laser correctly. I did contact them about the fact that XP Pro seemed to work and they told me they'd heard that from someone else too but they don't officially support it.
You might want to confirm with the developer of the software:
http://translate.google.com/translat...w.0123.com.cn/
They offer demos too, but of course you still won't be able to verify it outputs ok - hopefully someone has the ability to check and confirm.
Zax.