kaveman, just to make a counterpoint here. You talk about all the grief that Longhorn will bring to Windows users. Were you in cryonic suspension with the release of MacOS X? I seem to remember several years of grief caused by the poor and slow migration of software from OS 9. I do like OS X very much. Look, I'm not advocating either system over the other (and, Yes, I use both!). My concern was the casual 'switch' ideology. It is not, going either way. And I don't buy the 'not that expensive' bull. I own Poser 4/PP/5, C4D 7/8/9, Vue 4/Pro, Bryce, Adobe Illustrator/PhotoShop/Acrobat/Video Suite (Audition/EncoreDVD,PremierePro,AfterEffect) , Dreamweaver MX, DeLorme StreetAtlas/TopoUSA, DirectoryOpus (an old Amiga favorite of mine - blows Finder and Explorer away), StuffIt, WinZip, UltraEdit Pro, MS Office XP Pro, MS VS 6 (would need CodeWarrior), SmartSound, Pinnacle suite, RH Deep Exploration, Shade 7 Std, UV Mapper, Mimic 2 Pro, and several dozen more medium and small applications, many of which would need to be matched or cross-graded over. If you look at the list, this would cost up to or more than $10000 (not including the Mac system to begin with). It is one thing to spread that over five or ten years including upgrade pricings. But would be difficult in even two years and with cross-grades to afford that amount. How is it justified without some overbearing reason? There is no "switch to MacOS/Windows and get a free transfer of all registered, payed for applications" deal anywhere. Just to clear that up...

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

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