Where do you get "a."? If your "a." was strickly true all hell would broken loose by now. Bet on it. I am lucky (good or bad, who knows) in regard to "b.". I've been told that licensing requirements for XP violate MN state law with regard to private data (at very least the kind I and mine tend), so I probably won't see it anytime soon. >>> blutgens at sistina.com 03/27/02 08:05PM >>> >Linux, but you want to retain MS Office. (Ideally we'd have a Linux >backbone and W2K terminals, but that costs mucho dinero.) a: you can't buy win2k or win2k licenses anymore b: samba does not support winXP as a client to it's PDC services. You can still access files on a samba share, but the network transparency and roaming user support (centrsally located account information and settings) goes away.....