Well, actually, to change this from alt.sailing to
alt.flight-software-controllers...

Yes, I have flown in a couple of homebuilt aircraft using MS software.
I have intense lust for a Velocity 4-place canard built by a guy I know
in the XBox group. It's the perfect airplane. Sigh... And for sailing
content, I've crewed on several boats using MS software. But that's
nitpicking. I understand that there's a strong vein of anti-MS out
there in the universe and I don't really care. Just like I enjoyed
getting my dividend check but didn't find it an adequate substitute for
the stock performance I'd gotten used to in 90's.

There was sure a lot of money to be made off the Y2K insanity; but I'm
lazy. I value my time more than I value money, as long as I can put
food on the table. And people were CRAZY during that silliness.

Frank