It has been heard for the last 3 years (roughly) that this is Bill Gates agenda. No more will you be able to "purchase" software. Everything will be on a rental basis. I don't know about anybody else, but I've got enough revolving debt without worrying about paying Microsoft on a regular basis. It is true Win2k is very stable, but if the forseen future of this OS is so very short lived, maybe people will start to weigh their options a little more.