Innovation

[Tomas]

I can say one thing... i downloaded the latest beta of longhorn, so far it is worse than the very first alpha version of winxp"codename windows whistler"
It is dead slow, the sidebar leaks memory like he*l and the gui itself use ALOT of ram, you will need atleast 1gigs of ram to run it "properly"

m$ acted the say way even with millenium before it was released... One positive thing though.. the included IE had popup blocker and download manager.

[Tomas]

I also see where Linux is starting to look and act more like Windows. And open office (though nice to have a choice) is just as complicated to use as is Word.

That is simply not true, it is completly the other way.. XP has stolen a few features that KDE has had for years..

[Tomas]

The GUI won't be improved it will be re-written, i.e. more eye-candy but less demanding.

I really hope you are right there.. it looked to me like it is built upon the old explorer gui