your right xp is so gui oriented thats because windows is starting to just copy everything mac does look at macos 9.1 and win me which came out shortly after, and now look at macos x and winxp, i remember the first thing i said when i saw XP "oh my god its a mac" windows is running dry, the compatiblity and familiarity is all they have left
if linux or mac had that noone would use windows. microsoft is just riding on the name now. i'm in the process of installing macos x on my pII350, yes it is possible and runs so much better. allthough still perfer linux, i'm moving up to freebsd soon too.