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Jeff, MS is going backwards with W7. Less bells and whistles - like Win2000, but apparently keeping and moving ahead with some of the Vista feel.

As far as XP - I was a die hard 2000 fan, but ever since my "new" laptop and XP, things have been fine. I think I have had two BSOD's in 4 years and one was caused by me, the other was a fluke and may have been a bad driver update. I can upgrade MB's with XP, just as I had done with 2000.