Here's a good article about Microsoft's Longhorn OS:
a quote: There is a case for saying that Microsoft has gone on way too long in the computer business. Would it be beyond the realms of possibility that a white knight could come to the rescue and design something new using some bright ideas that the usual suspects haven’t even dreamt of?
In case anyone hasn't heard of it yet, Gmail is a hotmail-like email system that Google is currently beta testing. It's much better than hotmail because it is Google, not Microsoft, and also because you get a free gigabyte (1000 Megabytes) of space.