[Fyron]

Hacking the operating system or shelling out money to leech companies is not what I would qualify as "easily changed".

All of the screens I referenced _do_ have a 2000 equivalent... what new screens are you refering to, exactly? Other than the "fast user switching" interface, which could very easily have been made to look like the "classic" windows interface when using it, but was not, what screens are you refering to exactly?

About the BSOD and crashing... I never said that all error Messages were intrinsically helpful. But, you can write it down and look on the net to see if there is something you can do to prevent that crash in the future. No info at all is no good. And yes, not showing the BSOD was a marketing ploy, part of the stability of XP. BSOD was something windows critics often complained of, so they hid it. Marketing ploys are not always things directly advertised... marketing is far more complex than just bluntly claiming things.

I indeed have an argument, which you have failed to inhibit in any way.