Still Renting

Micro-Hoo!™: Desktop vs. Internet

I have two Gmail accounts and two Hotmail accounts. My Hotmail accounts ARE my garbage accounts, each for a specific type of garbage.

Meanwhile, as a musician who uses a computer as the center of my sound system/practice experience, I use Winamp. I've tried to use Windows media player. I've spent literally hours trying to teach myself the user interface, figuring that once I fully understood it, I would like it. But I STILL have no clue how to simply add a file or folder to a currently playing song list. For Winamp, it is a piece of cake. For winamp I can use my keyboard to navigate through songs and songlists. For Microsofts media player. Fuggitabout it.

I also went to Firefox two years ago. I am required to use IE at work but after using both 50/50 for two years now, IE sucks.

Then there is the overhead in Vista (I embraced all other operating systems by MS but VISTA has me trying to buy a laptop and then just loading XP Pro on it). And I live in the Seattle area and several of my friends work for MS...