Microsoft Vienna may well be worth the wait, if it is indeed as radical a
redesign as this indicates:
--------------------------------------------------

Windows Vienna - opening a new generation of operating systems

September 7, 2006

In the past 20 years, the Microsoft Windows operating system has accumulated
old code libraries that brought it to the size it has today, 2.5 GB and
about 50 million lines of code (Windows Vista).

These old code libraries consume resources and are often the targets of
security exploits.

The best way to avoid such problems, is to start from scratch, which is
close to what Microsoft plans to do with Windows Vienna.

Windows Vienna will represent the start of a different generation of
operating systems, bringing in new concepts and support for new types of
hardware, along with a better security and a modular approach, which will
allow future versions of Windows to be built more easily on Windows Vienna's
engine.

It is also likely that the future success of Microsoft's products will be
strongly decided by the success of the new generation operating system.

<http://www.windowsvienna.com/>
------------------------------------------------------

STARTING FROM SCRATCH...

Sounds Quite Sensible...

Waiting for Vienna, if one can, sounds increasingly attractive.

XP Pro SP2 is a sweet OS.

Vista may turn out to be as transient and inconsequential as Millennium --
IF we can have Vienna in 2009.

--------------------------------------------------

New, But Associated Subject:

I agree with Jerry, "HEMI-Powered" [what's your moniker mean, Jerry?], that
I will NEVER leave any of my machines alone at night -- or any other time --
to do a DEFRAG or a DISK IMAGE or a WINDOWS or AV UPDATE -- all by ITSELF.

So, this silly-buggers business of "scheduling a weekly backup/download at
3AM" is absurd.

I also will never allow the cursed AUTOMATIC UPDATES on any of my
machines -- even for my Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware programs and Windows
Update -- which would love to put IE7 on all my machines if I let it --
because MS insists IE7 is a "CRITICAL UPDATE".

Baloney et Twaddle!

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas