Sadly it seems that for me it will be another lonely expanse of years sitting around with Windows 98, just waiting for a decent version of Windows to be released again. Last I heard of Longhorn, they were slicing off a bunch of the coolest and most useful features for the stupid reason of getting it out on schedule. Recently Windows seems to be 5% Operating System, and 95% idiot-proofing. They need to get around to releasing an advanced-user operating system. I'm sick of spending years finding and disabling various idiot-proofing measures that sap my performance and clutter my screen when I want to do anything that requires more than pressing a button.