Ernie wrote:

Thanks for your unbiased opinion.

No need to reply but I'm not quite sure whether your comment was said with
tongue in cheek. :-) My post attempted, poorly I admit, to say that the
benefits of upgrading to XP are not necessarily the same for everyone and
that for many users and systems it would be probably be more cost
effective to continue with their present setup, especially if working OK,
rather than spending money on a software upgrade and only to upgrade as
part of the purchase of a new PC at some future date. At least you can
see I don't work for Microsoft. vbg

Cheers,
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Mike Maltby MS-MVP