i have XP installed but absolutly DISPISE the 'new and improved' features its got on it....... today i have the joyus task of wiping my hdd and putting Cairo (NT5/Win2K) back on where it belongs...... whats more with NT4 it didnt handle directx well at all so you couldnt do much in the way of gaming.... again, cairo has addressed and fixed this...... if you ask me M$ would be much better off and have a better reputation if they were to only use there NT OS's cause they seem to be the only ones that have any effort put in. and they get service on a fairly regular baisis so............... the only thing that i will give XP is its previus version emulation. if they dont put that into NT6 im gonna be pissed cause they finally hit it right on with that. thats solved SO many problems so easily sence ive used it..... oh well i guess ill have to go back to properly fixing things now