First off, this whole debate got out of hand, vee_ees made an unneccessary and uncalled for remark to *.chef whom was only responding to the original post. Read the first 3-4 posts.

This is a public forum where by anyone can respond to any post anyway he wishes. If vee_ees disagrees with a post, he should address that aspect, not 'talk down' to a poster that made it, ofcourse *.chef defended himself, wouldn't you ?

Having been on the internet from the beginning, when there were only 2500 (twenty five hundred) pages and I use to flip them one at the time each night, and having used (or tried to) windows since the very first edition, I wouldn't take anything MS said as serious about anything.
But MS advertized XP as being the first non-dos version of Windows. All the previous vers were based on the 1984 MSDOS which Bill hijacked from IBM in 1982- read the history.

*.chef has contributed some highly accurate and very technical posts on here, as his experience reflected, I hate to see him leave under this condition.
*.vee_ees seems to feel too strong in his own convictions and should tone down his temper.

Guys , lets face it, you are not actually upset at each other ! but only at the topic !
Why not forget this whole episode and continue on ! This forum needs all the posters it can muster !