IP Convergence: Beyond VoIP, Beyond Cost Savings

Sorry for the delay in responding ... my wife just called and asked me to help her through a PC crash. All kidding aside I agree to some extent with the comments around reliability and the challenge that presents but as I look it really doesn't happen as often as people say - at least not in my experience. I know I know the obvious rebuttals - the OS is bloated, takes forever to boot, apps take forever to launch, so on and so forth. The fact is that my experience over the past several years is that my MS box is adequate and cost affordable. As an aside I would love to see a better alternative for managing digital photos on my MS box ... something like apples software package would be ideal as a great alternative. One more thing .. I have not replaced my machine for over 4 years and at the time I purchased it I spent 1/2 the cost that the comparable MAC's cost at the time. I guess you get what you pay for.