Thank you!
My family is spending all hours possible to get most of our education on BSD (UNIX) platforms because of the part of the market I'm training for: development of multi-platform, direct rendering packages and uncostly, secure, fast networks with thin clients. I only get to have a peek at MS operating system interfaces once in a while for testing and the like, and we can't yet afford to buy everything new that's out there. Most networks that offer software for workplace efficiency also include an internal Microsoft server (familiar GUIs). We also need to guess as to how soon we should upgrade our MS drive for that purpose.
For now, we're also making decisions about whether we should concentrate on learning more about the MS GUI library or the Fox GUI Toolkit (very familiar look and feel for MS users but very portable to various OSs and good license addendum for commercial development).