Tim, Got seriously obnoxious when it went from doing that every 3 weeks or so to a few times a day

It's interesting to read your comments a few months after some earlier discussion about XP (way back when)

Suffice it to say, my strategy will remain the same: keep Win2K on my one Windows machine until MSFT figures out a way to pry it from my fingers (it may become my next Wordstar!) and then: OS X.

I still have Explorer.exe croak on me under Win2K, but the condition has at least stabilized -- just once a month!

As one of those Infoworld articles implied, I often feel like the story of Windows upgrades is not a story about technology necessarily but is instead a story about human aspiration and the very human need to maintain hope in the face of adversity!