The Register tells us Windows 2000 has nine months to live. This is a great pity - Win2k is the only decent OS Microsoft have ever produced, and given the user-hostile directions they're going with XP and Palladium, this situation is unlikely to change. So this means my current copy of Win2K is the last Microsoft OS I will ever purchase. That is, unless Palladium turns into a reality and locks us all firmly in the Microsoft trunk for all time, gasping our last breath in Bill Gates' leaky carbon monoxide.