Hello, Jim

Well... I think this isn't the point, because they both have their own strength and weak point. But in my case, WinXP managed to do something that none of other os-es can't do it: I had a video card with deffective video memory (at that moment, I didn't know that). All Windows flavours simply crashed completely. WinXP did freeze, after 15-20 secs it restarted the computer by itself, and at the next boot it said: "It seems you have problems with your video card. It can't do directdraw operations. Usually, this is a driver problem - try to download the latest drivers for your video card. If this doesn't solve the problem, it could be a hardware problem".

And exactly that was the problem. Man, I wish my programs to be so exact in error handling and debugging.... I was impressed.