Quote - Didn't mean for ya to come down off your high horse and mingle with us less informed.

I "mingle" here on Renderosity fairly often.Been doing it for years. I'm not sure why yoru so defensive about it.

Quote - It still doesn't answer why ANY Microsoft OS has to be full of needless crap.

I don't consider Windows XP, Server 2003 or Vista to BE full of "needless crap". I find the systems to be a great platform to develop for and only getting better as time goes on.

Heres the thing . it might help if you actually knew the systems you were getting so upset about. That isn't an insult, its a reality. You comment on XP, but I doubt you develop on it. You comment on Vista, and I am sure you've never run it. You complaina bout bloat but you don't really seam to understand the feature set. You complain about security, but you seem to have obsolete information. You complaina bout DRM, but you don't know who, why or what is actually involved.

Jsut a thought.