hey, bill gates can kiss my ass. he ripped off apple, early on. now his pissed people are ripping him off. and if bill fooks up, he can lose lots of people. to other os's. like red hat, mandrake, winlinux, beos, freebsd. all of which can run most windows based programs. with emulators they have. they also have alot of features windows doesnt. i have 3 os's on my system now. mandrake, win 98se, and win xp home. only reason i use win xp is for the faster internet connection. and for those who say win xp is stable, i dotn think so i get the BSOD (blue screen of death) at least twice a week.