Hopefully we are moving back into an era of increased competition in the OS market; that would be a good thing to see. personally I'm rooting for Plan9 :) Havi

Hopefully we are moving back into an era of increased competition in the OS market; that would be a good thing to see. personally I'm rooting for Plan9 :) Having you product commoditized isn't so bad, provided that you've got high volumes. Getting people to upgrade existing XP and Office installs is going to be Microsofts biggest challenge, in a saturated market where sagging hardware sales are no longer pushing new Windows licenses. Hence ever more aggressive Windows Genuine Advantage stuff, I guess. I don't know about you, but when people talk to me about upgrading their 'slow' old pc's now, I usually talk them into putting Linux on it. They are generally astounded at the speed improvement over their mushy old, virus addled, Windows install. No complaints from anyone yet.