Oh and another note. If you like 'new' like VERY new OS's... Check out www.osnews.com - while they don't post stories about new OS's or even OS's in general every day, they do announce when new releases are out, and when a new OS comes out.

The OS i use as my desktop is win2k pro. Tried Linux, but just didn't work for me, for me as a Desktop OS. Much better for server related (biased opinion of course