M$ wanted to move away from the old kernel (Win95/98/Me) to the NT kernel exclusively. This was accomplished almost completely with the release of WinXP SP2 (all but multilanguage IME support in XP Home). Generally, this is a good idea on their part. It reduces the number of kernels that need to be coded and updated (etc.) and it gets rid of the old, crippled, unstable kernel. The NT kernel is by far the better of the two (once I moved to NT4.0, I never used 95/98/ME on any system afterwards). NT4.0, Win2000 Pro, WinXP Pro, WinXP Pro x64. Look how long it's taking M$ to release Vista. Now they are pushing until after the new year. 2 billion developers and they still can't produce a timely OS... ;)

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

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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