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Four experts defend their chosen operating systems in an opinionated free-for-all OS SmackdownLinux Light on its feet and ready to strut its stuff Mac OS X All you need in one dynamite packageWindows Vista The best there is (despite the bad rep)Windows XP Hands down, the choice of the people Since the dawn of time -- or, at least, the dawn of personal computers -- the holy wars over desktop operating systems have raged, with each faction proclaiming the unrivaled superiority of its chosen OS and the vile loathsomeness of all others. No matter how fierce the language or convincing...

I doubt it's possible to get a definitive answer, but as long as you don't take any of it too seriously you can have a lot of fun playing with proxies such as the average user's ability to read and write his or her native language.

I am using Windows XP Home and PowerPoint 2000. When I try to drag a .jpg file from Windows Explorer onto a PowerPoint slide, all I get is a text object that lists the location and name of the file, not the image associated with the file itself. What's going on, and how can I actually get the image into PowerPoint via drag and drop? I know I can do an "insert/picture/from file" but I'd rather drag and drop. Thanks.