Basicly what I got out of this reply is that YOU CHOOSE to run any version because of the support for the platform and also the low cost of software for the platform, now don't get me wrong because I do not like the instablability of 9x and my 2000AS took about an hour to boot this morning, but we all know that we are not "bound" to windows, we just choose to use it because of the formentioned points above, thank you for proving my point.