XP SP2 is easier to control, but some dratted programs just don't listen! And then you get the "Reboot Now?" message out of the blue, right freakin' in the middle of a render or upload! Even Opera is doing that now!

I'm going to disagree about the problem sitting in front of the computer. Microsoft has even turned something as ubiquitous as a search engine into a complete kludge. Bing now asks for Captcha entries, because some people 'search too much'. I got it, and I haven't used it at all. And every other OS release from MS is a hack job: Win 95, WinME, Vista.

I'm thinking about that ancient acoustic guitar in the next room. Some new strings, dig out the old music... I may have never played well, but I was loud. g