I guess the latest trick that we'll see from microsoft is that they'll try to get in bed with more and more hardware manufacturers to fix things so that the hardware only works with a microsoft os. We'll need some lawyers on our side to fix that one. Incidently, I'm old enough that I remember the days when IBM was king and microsoft was a tiny but growing organization. All of the software engineers back then were rooting for microsoft. They were saying the same things about IBM then that we're saying about microsoft now. Makes me think that we're all hung up in a long (20 yrs) loop. Wonder who's gonna be next?