Unix is more reliable, etc, and we have two machines at work running FreeBSD whose uptime is probably years, but they only run one or two apps. They run a huge range of apps, some common, some highly specialised, dating from early 1990s all the way through present time. I also have 2 Thinkpad laptops, 2 PCs at home, 2 PCs at work, all running XP and all of them work and do what they are supposed to do. My GF has a win7 PC which works with the bog standard stuff and which gives trouble in every other department. I have a pile of productive (and expensive) software which doesn't run under win7. If the apps I need for my work all run under Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (and for some years that was true they wouldn't run under NT) then so be it. SDB73 - an O/S is just there to run apps.
