Im going to ahve to agree with un4given1. Hes right on all his facts. XP is a more stable OS. Fredledingue..... How in the hell could you base on with OS is faster by holding down a button to reach 100,000 characters... Thats sad. XP is more stable at holding programs... and keeping alot a programs running at the same time. I dont think my XP has crashed in forever. For the hackers,viruses,spy-ware, that has nothing to do with it. I highly doupt that you have had 0 viruses without a anti-virus on 98. Then i will give you one. For for XP install SP2. Gives you the built in firewall. For Anti-Virus Symantec. Spy-ware get Giant Anti-Spyware. When i play games on 98.. i will have the same Graphix card... and it takes forever to get from the game screen>>quit>> and get back to the desktop quickly. XP does it almost instantly.