Not much to maintain in a modern computer. Usually they last until the electrochemical fluids dry up in the mainboard components, power cycle the unit, and it never boots again. Even harddrives have become very reliable with almost no bad sectors.

But Maughan, you are not supposed to marry or have religious relationships with OS'es. Microsoft products work relatively well in some settings, but they are not the end-all answer, far from it. As I have said before, all computer systems suck!



This is wrong, and doubly so the way you put it. DRM will hurt you a lot if Microsoft gets it their way, no matter how law abiding you are. It is not only about movies, music etc. it has much longer claws. A good start is: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html