i have to say i quite agree OS are bigger and bigger, slow down the machine more and more, wasting cpu power and hd space. An OS should be there to let the user operate the system (hence the name). IF they were serious peoples, M$ would have worked on improving xp core (as they did from 2k to xp, in a way).This would have resulted in a faster, smaller, optimised core. Then they could always buy Stardock to have eyecandy stuff... Drivers should be unified (i mean, there should be ONE directX graphic-card driver, and all manufacturers should make compliant gfx cards), same for network, etc Well, who am I... I'll stick with my nlited XP as much as i can, then, will try to switch to linux, if i can run FL studio on it