>>Nothing counts till XP gets into mass distribution.
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>Why don't you ask a few people that are running XP and have tried the following scenarios? THey've said Windows XP and Office XP both booted fine afterwards.
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>As for piracy not being high in the US, this is hwat I see from MS:
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>"In 1999, U.S. piracy accounted for 1.8 billion in lost tax revenue, 107,000 lost jobs, and 5.3 billion in lost wages."
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>What are some other numbers to suggest otherwise?

How about some from sources not related to MS?
http://kiwi.pyro.net/~ransom/essays/microsoft_consumers.html
The DOJ case with rebuttals:
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3600/3661.htm

and a dated piece:
http://www.cptech.org/ms/harm.html
One out spoken lawyer's point of view:
http://www.lamlaw.com/PublicForums/Enormousharm.html
and a check:
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/99/microsoft-liberty.htm

a few of the thousands on the web...