Well as a Mac Owner I can sympathize with the Windows people being ousted out on the next version. But as a windows and mac developer of sorts, I can assure you that it is not always possible to provide the best user experience with any os based on 9x, including ME. Don't get me wrong, I think ME is a good little OS for most of my games and office apps, but 2000 and Xp are far more stable and faster. This same thing happened several years ago when windows95 was released. Most Dos/Win3.11 users hated it, and justly so for it would not run the latest games very well. That all changed very fast, and now games in windows run far faster then ever possible in DOS. The same can now be said about XP, most games will run faster or as fast as those run on ME. This is because the 2k, XP OS's are a true 32bit OS that does not have any remnants of DOS code. WinME still has DOS remenants and 16bit code (especially in the Multi-Media sub system) that just makes for a slower, less stable OS. The bottom line is that if Corel drops support for 9x based OS's they are finding out what Maya, LW, ThinkDesign, and many other Modern 3D app developers found out a long time ago: For complex 3D design Windows 9x-ME is less then ideal and a support headache! Most mid - high end apps do not support Win9x, and now it is Bryce's time. Well this should mean several positives: 1. More stable 2. More Responsive 3. Faster Renders 4. More Complex Scenes/models I do not agree with BryceTechs planned boycot. It makes no sense to boycott a software package based only on what Windows version it runs on. Windows XP home edition is a small $89. Now boycotting a package based on Support or Functionality is a whole different story. My 2cents -PAGZone