I am a true ms pirate and i like it ,i don't want ms software because of the price ( and with that i mean software AND hardware price) take win2k for example you NEED 128 mb memory if you just want to write a letter and lets not start to talk about processors, 3d cards and hardrives ( you know all those cool effects the new voodoo and nvidia cards do , we did them on a 386 running dos just by optimizing the code ) . I won't buy anything made by ms.
I have a bought my linux and when a new version of linux comes out i will buy it too , all my other software is payed for too , but it "needs" ms crap so thats why i pirate my copy and i it may help bringing ms down !!
By the way win2k is not good it's slow and cannot be serviced easily .
And it still has to reboot to often , when i install drivers for my soundcard it wants to reboot , damn it has been there all the time