BTW any issues associated with Vista fonts are easily sorted with a .reg file from Chris Pirillo, Fix Windows Vista

what ever :tired:

I'm sure Open Office is lovely, if you can get it to start up without crashing. The rare times that it will start, the font rendering is so crap as to be virtually unusable. I'll always need a Windows machine for a reliable Office product for the time being anyway.

Hang on nick you were using the "unstable" ubuntu distro called "edgy".

Try a stable version of OO.org 2 or above on windows and you might be surprised

The only reason MS have such a monopoly on the market is purely because of their legacy that other products simply don't have.

I.e backwards compatability, it's also their biggest flaw as the code gets bogged down and things become slower, so machines need more power to get the same effectiveness.

People do seem to foget that Mac OS is based/customised on OpenBSD.

People do seem to foget that Mac OS is based/customised on OpenBSD.

"People seem to forget...", meaning "M$ fans don't know or care about the difference between a kernal and an X-interface"?

Most people who use M$ products don't even know what a kernal or X-windows is. In fact the same could be said about Mac users.

Oh and if you look at a lot of the code OS X doesn't even comply to a lot of the X rfcs anyway. A lot of it is propriety.