Hell yeah! At one point I actually uninstalled XP so I could put 2000 Pro on isntead. One reason was I was training on it at college (WHY?!?!) and the other was less frigging wizards. And a clean install of 2k had less crap running in the background.

I do still recall how fast said PC went with 98 on it after I botched something up and had to use that as I lsot the 2k disk at some point. A matter of seconds for the machine to start and be ready! Theres an idea, how fast can you get a machine to start competition?

Quote from: neXusRumour mill was that sp3 would bring directx10 to xp but all the moaning from MS that Vista aint selling even if they were going to they may pull it to get you to get vista

they are _very_ unlikely to bring Dx10 into XP.  Not that it couldnt support it, but more because they NEED to sell Vista.  They have a lemon on their hands that isnt selling, they need to shift units, and they arent doing.  Vista doesnt offer any major advances over XP for most users, and people have figured that out.  Its pretty, but that is it.  In fact Ive found its more arse than its worth in many respects.  I know few of our customers at work are going to use it, and i know my personal customers arent going to it because they are all running 2k3/XP builds with spare licences.  


What is amusing me is that Vienna is supposed to available in early 2009.  IF it stays on track-and being MS its a bloody big if-then ill probably miss an entire iteration of Windows, and i know I wont be the only one.