I only read the first page, sorry too lazy. But I use windows simply because i cant get red hat to install. Im somewhat computer illiterate. I like windows because of the game capabilities. If i had the money i would infact purchase a new macintosh. People say "oh they suck there only 1 ghz" if you look at tests everything runs and opens over double what the speed windows will do it. Also macintosh is very secure unlike windows. Also whoever said "money made on windows goes back into windows" what are you thinking? The microsoft loses profit on every xbox they make. The only reason the xbox was ever made was because microsoft was getting sued for all there monoplising (i know it had somthing to do with that) so they had to branch out. Windows crashes alot, XP is better than other windows that have been made, yet its really unsecure. There have been so many holes in it, if you havnt notices yet that usually these holes are known months before yet microsoft doesnt let you know. Windows has screwed up big time on almost everything they have done, patch here, patch this, patch that. Wow maybe windows is a little easier to use, but it sucks. I assure you if macintosh was cheaper it would be very dominant. Infact alot of the newer games are in fact on mac. Also another reason for mac's not being so cheap is because they actually use good parts. Unlike most store bought pc's. Most pc's you will buy at the stores have cheap hardware in them and run windows, which is not a good combination. 5200 rpm hard drives etc. Ok i kinda went off topic here but it comes back to windows. Anyway, windows is already on its downfall, they were just fined or in the process of being fined 3 billion, yes billion dollars. They are losing more money than they are making, A few years ago microsoft had 50 billion dollars and its down to 40 billion. The government is already fed up with microsoft, the state of mass. has made there government open source only, somthing that windows is not. Otheres are continueing to follow the trend. Anyway i went really far off topic sorry!