Mark, I agree with you there. It certainly is unfortunate that Microsoft is trying to dominate the market in every field. However, from a programmer's point of view, it has it's advantages. For one, you know that everything is compatible, for another, you only have to remember one technical support number, and lastly, you only have to buy one software developement suite in order to be able to do anything you'll ever need to do. With Microsoft Visual Studio, you get a program to accomplish just about any task imaginable, and at the same time you keep companies like Maxtor and Western Digital in business, because you'll need a whole hard drive to install all of the products! But, like I said, I do agree with you, I wish that MS would try to work with other companies to make MS products compatible with their products, instead of MS making their own version and trying to push everyone else out of the way.

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Ryan