And going with wahat soulhuntre said, XP is rock solid stable. Of course there will be compatibility issues. When 200 came out most software or hardware was intended for 98. 200o operates similar to NT. NT is a 32-bit system. Some win 98 software however still needed to access 16-bit drivers upon occasion in both NT and 2000, this would sometimes cause problems. So stop bitching about XP. If you want better, you have to dumb the old 16-bit software and use XP for the way it was intended. Same goes for 2000.