Getting slighly off-topic here, but couldn’t resist Gwen’s comment. And hopefully I edited this quote right, was trying to get rid of everything except her own current post and save just the pertinent part of that.

Gwen, your comments about XP pretty much match my own gut feelings about it. I’ve never heard anyone else put it this way before, but my own opinion is that XP is just barely out of the beta stage, if it’s even gotten that far, and MS/Gates had one heckuva nerve selling it as a full-blown commercial product with corresponding pricing. It’s easily set a new record for the number of critical-upgrade patches required.

Best,
Mike