Sorry, I wasn't aware I had violated the rules of daunting someone. I think the statement fairly well stands on it's own in that it is a good idea to be open to trying as many different programs as one would like, or would be available, because the fractal community is far more divided along political lines involving the use of one program over another and suggestions are undoubtedly subjective at best. Perhaps after trying various software the person my find that it is in their best interest to pursue the use of a program that they are comfortable with, and may in fact like to explore the endless possibilities within the framework of the "z^2+c and nothing else" equation. Just as there are those folks who like to explore Lyaopunov's Quaternerion's, IFS, Attractors and whatever els they may choose to pursue, to the exclusion of others. Also a person could try to explore the many types of fractal generators to find ones that best suit them in the event they are merely looking for a style that they are interested in using as seed images within other software or post process in a myriad of ways. Yes, fractals, graphics and the choices thereof are truly daunting. That's one reason I listed the Fractal Art FAQ so that a description of the most popular programs are given, with links to everything else. BTW, Fractint has been available for Windows for some time. It is known as Winfract, version 18.21, but it has not been updated since 1994/95 and does not have the deep zooming capability, or a host of other capabilities, that the full DOS version has.