I actually don't like getting into long discussions, since it's pointless except to say that we don't agree! :) So I'll keep this one short.

>Not even bother, MS has created a damn lot.

Funny, I often see on the web people that ask this question, and yet noone seems to be able to answer, or when they do give an answer, someone comes up with where they copied it from.

I'll just take a single example: .Net . Let's go back 20 to 30 years. Mainframes. Dumb terminals. Anyone see the resemblance?

I know, there are probably a lot of people who are going to answer this one and say it's totally different. But the more I learn about it, the more identical it becomes to my eyes. So, let's just agree to disagree.

>Like with NT,
>Win9x is flawed and noone doubts it, thats why anyone with half a brain uses NT,2000 or XP.

That's why the majority of people are using Win9x! :)

>Everything has to be commercial to get any form of backing or support,

Not true, since there is a lot of support for Linux at this time.

>It is used enough, that it will continue to be developed. This isnt the case for most software.

We should also see that there is a magnitude more free/shareware/open source software than "commercial ones". It's bound to have more failures.