[NotQuiteCricket]

As a computer tech - I have to say that I'm tired of MS. I got tired with them when the produced XP and made it such a pain to fix/replace system files (dlls & ocx). I'm done with upgrading. ME sucked (the worst of both worlds unstable w/ system file protection). Win 2k is the best of breed IMO (of the MS product line).

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2002/jul02/0724palladiumwp.asp

Palladium has caused a lot of privacy concerns, and is the bones of their "trustworthy" computing.

I think I'm going to learn BeaOS.

[Gorzaloon]

Palladium has caused a lot of privacy concerns, and is the bones of their "trustworthy" computing.

They probably demand your checking acount and interbank routing number before it registers.

Windows ME showed that "Windows" can function as a verb.

I owe a lot to WinXP. It converted me to Linux.

I defended MS for years ("So shut up and write a better OS"), because a lot of the detractors were lonely Mac cultists, but the XP experience was so outrageous I want nothing further to do with Redmund.

[mikegi]

Win 2k is the best of breed IMO (of the MS product line).

Still using Win2k here. I put WinXP on my wife's machine but didn't like it enough to install on mine. Just can't get used to the "new and improved" shell. I guess I could run the shell in old fashioned mode but then I'd be right back to Win2k. However, there is one XP feature that will probably tip me into buying it for my machine: ClearType. I have an LCD monitor now and CT is far superior to regular Font Smoothing on it.

I haven't read very much on Longhorn but so far it isn't knocking my socks off. I haven't seen anything on the 3d shell stuff. A *useful* 3d shell is very difficult to make (as opposed to simple eye candy). I haven't seen a useful one yet.

[N3WBI3]

umm is it no BeOS