Yes, it is expensive via retail. But for a guy who has a bit of money the
couple hundred pounds won't be noticed and why not? It's a better OS and
anything of consequence will run on it. I got it via my MSDN subscription
because I do coding (and bought the subscription which enables access to
Visual Studio and the operating systems .. including server 2003). I settled
on it for my laptop - works great - and usually for my principle desktop -
although this past week I decided to switch to XP for a while. I have 2003
running my other two desktops though.
Anyone who runs it as a desktop usually finds they like it better than
Windows XP. Heck, even the default desktop is better.