Microsoft Windows XP Professional Full Version for PC (E8502665RB)

Being in the I.T. field for as long as I have been, I have grown to hate anything Microsoft, there are so many security holes in the operating system, swiss cheese looks like a solid block!

The "Firewall" they include is an utter joke, doesn't even come with native Virus protection, and updates are handed out once per month, and they are never truly revealed to you.

This OS what the first of a string of horrible garbage from Microsoft. the last GREAT OS was NT 4.0 for the Desktop and for a little more functionality, Windows 2000.

If your intelligent about computers and yearn for something more powerful Linux is your step, Mandriva Linux is a great starting point.

For those that don't want to learn all the ins and out, Mac Laptops and Desktops are what you need. Easy to catch on, has one of THE BEST Graphical User Interfaces of ALL TIME. and to boot, it is a FreeBSD variant, therefore FREE of viruses and has a journaled file system (HFS+) that actually works compared to NTFS.