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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
*cough* Did you say Windows servers are reliable? I know several large corporations who USED to run Windows servers who might disagree with that notion--including the one I currently work at, which is quickly trying to get rid of them as soon as possible and replace them with anything POSIX (with a preference for Linux servers). Considering the incredibly poor reliability I've seen first-hand, I also have to disagree with that portrayal. Elop probably never did any server administration to recognize that, though, so the point is still taken that he doesn't think of the miserably unreliable junk that Windows has come to be to most people--and that perception will continue to follow it to their mobile platforms.
OK, derailing the thread even further... we are running the rocky ground now but whattehehell, let's ride it

So, I am not really in the know-how of the state of windows server administration today. Currently I only work with linux servers and the last time I had anything to do with windows was when NT4 was the state of the art, and back then there were not that many problems.

I actually don't recall ever having had that many SW related problems, all problems that we had were traced back to broken HW and there is no OS that can survive when the HW platform under starts burning chips... Even windows servers work(ed) well when there was no possibility of letting (l)users to install junk on them.

Things may have of course changed since the turn of the millenium