A few questions.

Will I be able to open in a new window where it's not over the current one?

Will closing windows force the close for the next window to be somewhere else?

Will we have those stupid menus that don't give you all the options?

Will it look like a standard windows 2000 install, or will it treat me like I'm some kind of modern art museum fetishist?

Will it hang?

Will it index everything, and combine some stupid search that means I don't know where I'm looking for what. Will I be able to switch all this off, before it installs itself.

Will it have a find in files that works like the visual studio one? I.e. It starts at a root folder, and actually looks in only the files you tell it to, for the stuff you want, and only when you want.

Will it be faster than XP by miles?

Will I be able to switch off all the stupid shit that "Business development consultants" think I want?

Will it be my machine, rather than theirs to tell it what to run, and when?

Or will it just be more of the stupid, arthouse gimmicky crap that Microsoft have given us for the last three years?

No?

So I'd like...

Firewall,

Web Browser,

Email Client, Server, and Web Server.

And to be able to buy a laptop without Vista pre-installed, but with XP.