In my opinon win95 was the best is was not that quarky by the time it reached verB. Win98 is too much of a memory hog but if you have a cheaper system you can gat away with it now. I use 2000 pro and server and find them great as a home use machine. I have office xp and activated it. Not too happy about that. It says no information is transfered to microsoft, Yea sure it's not. Then i hear if you decide to change memory or a cd-rom you have to reactivate it again? What's next you buy a PC that hooks you automatically to the MSN network you don't have a choice then you run a citrix session to you're "personalized" desktop configured by microsoft on what you should want. This way they can shadow you're session 24/7 each click of the mouse? I tend to believe these rumors, they're already in a anti-trust case, and they have demonstrated the behavaior time and again. Mark my words the way were headed, miroshaft will be selling them that way in the next 5-10 years.