I don't hate "Microsoft", I hate ideology of Microsoft. This article is the capstone for me http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/ 27/2232244 ..on to the question at hand... Being a Sr. Software Architect I have a professional understanding for what people want in a final product; MS doesn't deliver it. I dislike that they want to "best guess" what I want and how I want it done. I have a strong dislike that I can't kill process whenever I want. I dislike that I can't control what is and is not started at boot time. I find it frustrating that if WinAmp crashes..so does IE or Word or 19 other products that don't have anything related to them. I disagree with how MS treats the "lesser" entities. The small people that just want to get something out and make some money and roll in the great American concept of Capitalism...they can't becuase MS owns the patent on Capitalism. If I were to continue..I'd lose what dignity I have with the ./ community :) so I'm going to leave on that note. [yes, I did overuse the word dislike .. but it's late and I'm sssleeppy] io