I had to go with, its new and shiny, closest to my answer because my answer is "because its there". I actually love XP coming off of DOS, Windows 3.1, Win 95, 98, 2000 and even ME for about a week. Free software is good, though I find its easier to pay in the long run to get all updates. Its also getting harder and harder to find free versions on many Linux websites and Linux still has a LONG way to go to be as user friendly as Windows. You may disagree with that, but take it from someone who runs it casually, its friendlieness sucks. Bad. All of them. Well, Lindows makes it a bit easier, but you dont know what you did really. If they want to go mainstream, the average guy needs to be able to just go without all the driver and app issues I and many others have. Too bad they cant support .exe files out of the box and ship files and drivers that way, it would make all the difference in the world.