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Windows just doesn't cut it...you say.

Well, writely.com, google's acquired web word processing program, runs on Microsoft's ASP.net...and runs well, it's my wp of choice.

I do agree, though, when it comes to *server* administration...nothing beats *nix. Windows is not even close in this regard.

When I said "Windows just doesn't cut it", I *was* referring to use as a server operating system, specifically. As for web-based apps, they are much the same position as OpenOffice: They're perfectly good, if you don't need the extra features of MS Office; the same, for different users, could be said of Abiword or even vi (with or without TeX or troff). With web-based applications, of course, you also have to factor in the additional risks of hosting your data on somebody else's servers, which (among other things) may or may not be accessible 24/7. (I'm pretty sure that Google runs 24/7, but also pretty sure that my internet access doesn't.)

When I said "Windows just doesn't cut it", I *was* referring to use as a server operating system, specifically.

Huh? I just showed you a perfectly good example of a *google* .net web application running on a *windows* server.

I'd say windows was cutting it in this case as a 'server operating system'.

"When I said "Windows just doesn't cut it", I *was* referring to use as a server operating system, specifically."

Then the whole "monopoly" rhetoric is irrelevant. Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly in server operating systems, and has never been ruled to have such. Jackson found that MS had a monopoly in desktop OSes running on intel-compatible CPUs. (I don't think that's even the case anymore with Macs now running on intel CPUs as well.)