You know, I honestly don't think Windows has crashed for me for at least a year. People seem to expect these CONSTANT crashes, which, I've discovered, do NOT seem to happen as long as folks run updated AV, ad-aware, a decent firewall, etc. Granted, I suppose you SHOULD be able to run anything you want without the OS crashing, but that's never gonna happen... In fact, I expect that OSX, *nix, etc WOULD crash if they were expected to run as much different software as Windows does. I think the BIGGEST problem comes from 3rd party drivers and software which, frankly, Microsoft has NOTHING to do with. Not to be a Redmond apologist, but jeez... give 'em a break. People EXPECT perfection from their OS, and they're NEVER gonna get it; whether it's Windows, *nix or a Mac OS. Windows is just the biggest target for people who really DON'T understand how things REALLY work in the PC world. </soapbox>