You know between Slashdot and here I do get sick of all the MS hating going on.

Well, rest assured that I would never try to prevent you from buying Microsoft products. Perhaps my reference to "political reasons" isn't perfectly accurate -- maybe "strategic reasons" would be better -- but, personally, I feel like I arrived at my decision not to buy any more pretty dispassionately. But I think I have blown enough wind on that subject on this BBS. If you care, most of that wind can be found back here.