Mrkim - I totally agree with you about the corporate greed of MS, however "progress" has always been their method. Each new version gave us a little more power and then took away something somewhere else. Somehow with XP, MS hit a plateau. The masses, while annoyed by the cost and severe security problems, were largely content with the functionality of XP and started keeping computers much longer than the 2-year cycle that made MS so big. So now they are cramming vista down our throats. There are some improvements, but a lot is lost.