You know they launched XP in 2001, right? and that it'll be supported until 2014? I think that's actually a remarkably good track record of supporting an oper

You know they launched XP in 2001, right? and that it'll be supported until 2014? I think that's actually a remarkably good track record of supporting an operating system (for comparison, Debian EOL'd 2.2 in 2003) I also think Microsoft cares entirely too much about it's users (to the detriment of advancing the platform for fear of incompatibility). Putting Debian on that Netbook was a smart move though, Windows 7 Starter Edition is an embarassment (it's very close to being cripple-ware), and while all I hear from people who use Netbooks is that "they perform just fine for surfing the web and emailing", I didn't find that to be the case with Windows 7 installed (but it really does run fine with Linux).