>Well I think that here will happen one of two things for M$:
>
>(1) M$ understand the big problem behind their politics (I have my reserves about that), and transform their way, or ...
>
>(2) "The giant(M$) bridge is going down, going down, going down ...", because nobody with some intelligence will backup that proposal.
>
>For the good things and without any insterest in a payback I hope those guys think well and change their path.

The thing that drove me from Win95 was its total lack of stability. What kept me away from susbsequent releases was the propriatary data formats and Microsoft's willingness to destroy competitors by building traps into their OS.

Right now, OpenOffice is making BIG waves. If Microsoft stays true to their form they will, in one of their coming 'patches' build in a block into DOC, Excel and Presentation files that prevents them from being recognized/imported by current releases of OpenOffice. If they already haven't done it.
JLK