Our small organization just moved to Office 365. Windows doesn't matter anymore. Keeping you on MS server products matters. In our case Outlook/Exchange and Sharepoint. Ongoing revenue stream for M$. Gives 'em time to fixup the latest windows beta...

As for the link to unix philosophy, I am sure that certain unities have malware, especially the ones I can't ever remember how to use, or what on earth the switches all mean, like find, or man.

Thank you. I learned the word "petulant" from your post today. Well, "learned" may be strong. Let's say that I may recognize it if I see it again, but it will be a while before I will be confident enough to toss it out in casual or official conversation.

It seems to me that a half rack of equipment of gonna take a lot less employees on site to babysit than rooms of equipment. Sure some of those jobs will stick around with the new business that takes over, but that will seemingly be the huge cost reduction for the company.