[KirbyEF]

I run windows because there are applications that have been written for windows that I want to use.

When a flavor of Linux gets a really good program that runs win32 applications well and I would consider switching to it! Less money in "Uncle Bill's" pocket the better!

I'm sorry, I didn't understand about the homeuser not required to renew their license.... The issues with MS requiring updates/upgrades and privacy control seems worse than having to pay them again for their license....

billg the visionary? He has been quoted in saying, "640KB is all the memory you will ever need" and him revising his "visionary" book "The Road Ahead" to include the internet.... come on.... He's just a bully and wants to win "AT ANY COST"... people dying and companies going out of business, no bother..... I've been messing about with computers since '81 and I don't liked MS, because what I have seen happen... Watch the movie "Antitrust" (the names have been changed to protect the guilty), it's based on real life practices of that "friendly" (fiendly) company in Redmond, WA (vs. the one in the movie Portland,OR).