I personally have had enough of Microsoft's business practices, DRM, security, constant updates and hype, and have been reviewing alternative operating systems. I have settled (with full knowledge of the Novell Microsoft "agreement") on openSUSE 10.2 for the time being and so far have been very satisifed with the results. The Vista driven "leave all your obsolete hardware at the end of the driveway for garbage pickup" mentality doesn't wash. SUSE is running just fine on an old 1Ghz Athlon. I urge others to try some sort of current Linux distro (try more than one) and experience it firsthand.