Interesting announcement BradMcCabe ! I'm sure a SharePoint Home Site helps to get up intranet/portal functionality more quickly.
Thanks for the FAQ on Home Sites DC_Padur , that provided most of the additional clarity I was looking for :)
One thing: As far as I understand a SharePoint Home Site is set up by a SharePoint admin, so a SharePoint admin can decide which regular and personalized web parts will be put on a page. For most of our customers where we set up their intranet, they are totally happy with this. However, sometimes I get requests from customers who want their employees to be able to configure the landing page of the intranet by themselves, so they want them to be able to configure the page on their own. They want them to be able to add or remove functionality, so they want to give them options to add or remove web parts by themselves. Think of it as in the old SharePoint days what was available as the "Personalize this page" functionality. Is that kind of functionality also expected to become available in SharePoint Home Sites?