My work machine

Dell Insprion 9100 ( one of the last P4 Laptops from Dell before they switched to the underwelming Pentium M's ), has had its native XP professional with its service packs for over 1 year now.

My home machine, a unit I built from cobbled together parts, has had my retail version of 2000 professional, and recently a retail version of XP professional on it. Though I regularly zorch the software loadout and re-install just to make it have that like new performance characteristic once again ( like every 3 months or so )

I just this weekend, bought a new HP with a Pentium D V//V. It came shipped with Media Edition XP though I may just put my XP professional license on it because I can, since I paid 300 for the retail version. The XP that shipped with the HP is tied to a 8 gig hidden partition that will force me to spend the 2 days cleaning out all the extra garbage that ships with these machines....

Example

A 60 day trial version of Office 2003 ( Get that crap out'a here I have a license of the real thing )

A 45 day version of Nortans Antivirus/Internet security. Sure I bough a fast machine just so that thing could bring it to its knees.

Every version of Every ISP's warze clogging my machines arteries
AOL... Gonzo
EarthLink.... Bye Bye
Netscape.... See ya
MSN....  Flush...

All the rest of the trial ware removed

 just so I can get my clean slate back.