>I wonder how many 65 year old Windows users (my mother being one of them) would be willing to type everything in uppercase or lowercase because windows wanted it that way? :o) I can hear my mom now...

My mother (who is older than yours, although she'd hate to see me saying it) tends to accept whatever the computer wants to do. She's even worse about it because she was a mainframe programmer.

Try teaching a mainframer about case-sensitivity in a password some time. Just try. <g>

(And that of course proves that Windows DOES care about case. <g>)