Microsoft are starting to wedge ideas from X into Windows - witness the emergence of RDP and, on a more useful level, the ability of Citrix Metaframe XP to throw a single application window across the network.

Irrelevant to most users, my arse. Irrelevant to *home* users, I'd buy. App servers and Citrix products are starting to become common again in corporate computing.

Gryge - one bloke's disillusionment with a dead development model is NOT an insightful comment into the state of the art of graphical user interfaces.

Aside - On the same hardware, Windows XP's OpenGL performance is slower than that achieved under X. Test application is Quake III Arena. I get 100FPS at 1024x768x32 (full detail + trilinear + 2xAA) while I only hit 90-95 under Windows with the same settings. This is a dual boot box, so hardware parity is absolute :-)

Bah. This was supposed to be a reply to Andrew's initial post.