When I tried to bring it up, so I could learn to develop in Java, Windows always crashed. I found out later that they tried to break Java, so it was no wonder. Up to that point, I was a faithful little minion of MS. But when they refused to answer any of my questions for solving the problem, I decided to look else where.

The place that took me in and showed me an alternative, and answers my questions was the Linux community. While I was learning Linux, I had a dual boot system for awhile. But the more I got familier with Linux, I was also regreting to have to go back into a unstable system that crashed on me daily, because Linux did not.

Yes I admit that I am now a Linux advocate, not becuase I fell into some Linux party line, but because MS was the one that drove me there, looking for answers and a solution for my problem. I wanted to be able to learn to develop in Java, but I needed a system that did not crash everytime I brought up the IDE.

I have found that there is so much freedom in Linux, you get to control your system and you do not have to be concerned over how many machines you run it on, for there is no, absolutly no activation code for it. No renewal licenses to deal with, and everything that I was able to do in Windows, I am able to do in Linux. And now I am 100% Windows free. I do not even miss it. Thank you MS for not answering my e-mails. I would have never made if you did.