Windoze Millenium (Score 1)

Ugh, yet again, as much as I hate it, Mr Gates's Platform is going to be quite a defining factor in the future of these technologies. I work for an OEM and always like to keep up with whats going on technology wise (even though we are a WinTel only OEM) and looking at Windows Millenium proves that ISA and other legacy standards surely have to die a death, not that long after the product is released. From what I can see, the only difference in Windoze Millenium (apart from more pointless gui touchups and changed icons) is the removal of all legacy driver support and access to true DOS at bootup. Mainstream OEM's work to the guidelines that MS and Intel set out, they have very little choice but to follow the rest of the herd as Joe 6Pack wants a PC with the Intel Logo and Windows Flag. One day this may well change (for the better) but for now Linux is doing a good job at catch up, so I dont feel we have much to worry about with regards to lack of support from the OS.