[VOA]

Yikes, XP is hardly a marginal leap from 95, its actually a
whole lot different in many many ways.

Time to boot, intractable lock-ups leading to the need to shut down
and other annoyances...
no discernable difference between Win95 and Win XP from what I can see.

Sure XP has more bells and whistles...but in terms of user experience...
Gates and company have just engineered something that keeps the
status quo.

And don't call me a Gates/Microsoft hater.
I still use his products because some of the alternatives
also have their own constellations of downsides.

[aft_lizard]

I dont think you are a hater, dont see you much on these threads anyways. Anyways as far as changing the user interface, as far as I am concerned not much change is needed there. Pretty much every GUI since Win95 has remained pretty steady in that aspect, keeping the basic interaction between computer and user the same is a good thing IMO.