As far as I can tell it is not as stable as Win 2k3 or as Linux (we run RedHat). Just installed a new division file server based on 2008 and it crashed last week, apparently because MS services for NFS caused it to Blue Screen on a race condition in NFS services. You have to install a hot fix! Separate from normal updates. ... some people lost a few hours of data and work! ... seriously considering shit-canning it and going back to a RedHat file server running Samba. 2008 is hardly something that should be called an "Enterprise" product. It's quite amateurish in its coding!

I just read the original Science article referenced in the New Scientist article. For the purpose of the research performed, the efficacy or correctness of the choice was guaged by whether an individual "felt good about their choice". An obvious flaw with this metric is that there are some choices that are objectively better than others. For example, if you choose a car that turns out to be a "lemon", then you've made the wrong choice. And just because you "felt good" about your choice doesn't matter ... Oh well ...