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Ah yes... but of course! We stopped running Micro-Shaft in our house back in 1998....that is for anything we actually DEPEND ON. MS Windows needs to taken into correct perspective, as with a toilet. That's pretty much the way I use it. At work, I'm fortunate to be in a position to dictate that I WILL operate in a UNIX environment. But I do like Visio and MS-Outlook...and I do sometimes take advantage of cross platform functionality as with Evolution and Korganizer.

But even my data for my one (disposable) Windows box at work is stored in my primary box which is a Linux (Ubuntu) laptop. I pretty much treat MS Windows like the toilet that it is. Sure I use it...everybody does. But I REFUSE to depend on it. I have no misgivings about flushing it and reloading the OS because there's no data on it. It only holds applications. It's a brainless application server in my case and far too many people have been let down and disappointed by MS's sorry excuse for an operating system for me to ever depend on it professionally.

Besides this, as easy as Ubuntu is to install...along with a BIG application base of free and non-free software, I simply don't understand why people run Windows any more...especially why they "depend" on it. Crossover for Linux lets one run Windows apps in Linux, and if that doesn't work, there's always VirtualBox (by Sun) and VM-Ware server (which is free).

I know I'm preaching to the choir to you. :-) Maybe somebody else will glean something from my ramblings. Who knows?! :-)