Nice find DoDoENT. MS is pretty much garbage. I was raised on Windows machines and when I was old enough and smart enough I switched to Linux (kind of like how I was raised Catholic and when I was old and smart enough I became an atheist, but to be specific, a freethinker). I always knew about Linux (and open-source) but I never did my research, and I wondered "what's so good about it?". When I had my first co-op job at a search engine company I learned why it's so great. My supervisor/boss who I looked at as a role model, was a big open source fanatic, everything that was used to develop was first tried to be done with open source sw if possible (and a LOT is possible to do with open source sw -- thus the company saves a lot of money) so I ran a virtual machine on my XP box and became more familiar with Linux. He later mentioned that sharing is contributing to humanity, and that's when I had my epiphany.