I agree Omega, i have been running XP for a couple of months now, from Beta to Pro Official release. I also build computers for friends and i install XP on all these computers. I have had it running with AMD T-Birds to Pentium 4's. I haven't really experienced any troubles with hardware, and very few instances with software. I dual booted my personal system for a while between 2k and XP, but have since removed the 2k part. As far as the networking question in an early post, you can still change your ip in ipconfig from command line. As far as DOS programs go, best i can tell you is to find new emulators!  ;D I like XP alot, and have recently put it on my server at home which hosts 4 other comps. (one Mac) I am waiting to see what kind of trouble that gives me. So far tho, it has been smooth sailing  :