I'm running Microsoft Windows, can I get GNOME?

Currently the answer is no, GNOME hasn't been ported to the Windows platform, there is an effort going on to make such a port possible. If you really really need a version for Windows, count on doing lots of work and coordinating with related efforts.

Tor Lillqvist has been porting several graphical libraries used by GNOME to the Win32 (Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT) platform. More info on his efforts can be found at http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32. He's already ported glib, gtk+, gdk_imlib, and a few other libraries involved in generating graphics to Win32.

His goal is to get Gimp working fully on the platform (it already works partially), but his work brings GNOME much closer to being portable to Windows. A number of GNOME applications need just his libraries (possibly with some more debugging), libpng, gnome-libs and ORBit. If someone were to port these, many GNOME applications could be compiled and run on Windows.

If you are interested in working on such a project, make sure to carefully read the documentation of Autoconf, since that's how we differentiate between different system capabilities in GNOME. Also, take a close look at Cygnus Solution's CygWin32 libraries and utilities. They will make such a task much easier.