I'm not saying that I hate Microsoft, I am just more open to other practical OS's. Trust me, the last thing I want is millions of ignorant people switching to Linux cause I would be the guy going to their house just to install some drivers.
Microsoft do make several great products such as Server 2003, ISA and Exchange (although the new Exchange has a lot of issues with XP networks at the moment) *I cannot form a reliable opinion on Server '08 because of lack of experience with it* I do think that their Office suite could stand to be cheaper though.
The thing I'm trying to say is that after such a long development schedule and beta, and the extraction of several features that I expected much more from Microsoft. Just as you would expect a car manufacturer to come out with a better model, (i.e. w/o flaws the previous one had) I had expected the same from them. In this day and age they should be capable of that.
Maybe they should stop with the 50+ million code OS refresh and should start offering an OS "upgrade" that comes every few years that does not interfere with too much with drivers and such?
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