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Syber, here are a few more links for you I got from my friend. He said to weed through the obvious "I hate Microsoft" negative comments and judge for yourself.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=719

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3789

http://content.zdnet.com/2346-12554_22-277290.html

Barf, Gag, LAME. I've already played with several demo and beta versions of Windows 7.

A) The WinSXS folder bloat has NOT been fixed.
B) The visual effects are nice, but are definite resource hogs.
C) With no applications it takes up a huge hunk of HDD space even BEFORE you start installing apps and the SXS bloat kicks in.

Now, compare this to Linux
Full install of the Mandriva PowerPack 2009.0 DVD
A) Even with several versions of commom libraries (basically what WinSXS achieves with Windows DLL libraries) the full install size is still only around 8-9GB
B) Visual effects can be very nice here too, and you have 2 options for the driving engine. Yet takes very little resources, can be used on a 1GHz CPU with 512MB of RAM without a serious performance impact. I love streamlined code baby.
C) Comes with many USEFUL SOFTWARES THAT ARE NOT THE 60-90 day demo crap that comes with new windows based PCs. Such as Brasero burning software. Video editing. Photo editing. Etc... etc... etc...

I'm gonna also post from a discussion I've been having elsewhere now:

PS. Just one more Linux vs. Windows nose tweaking:
(This info is for 32bit versions only, for 64 bit versions of XP info is same, for 2003 double everything. Number o CPUs means PHYSICAL CPUs. If they're all Quad Core CPUs, you'd multiple by 4 to determine max number of Virtual CPUs)
Windows XP Pro Max CPUs: 2
Windows XP Pro Max RAM: 4GB
Windows Server 2003 Max CPUs: 32
Windows Server 2003 Max RAM: 2GB-64GB depending on Edtion (of which there are 4)
Windows Vista Max CPUs: 2 (on business Edition or better, otherwise only 1)
Windows Vista Max RAM: 128GB
Windows Server 2008: I don't know stats for this, but I figure they're about double Vista for RAM and at least 64 CPUs
Linux Max CPUs (THUS FAR): 1024 in a single machine, 2048 in a cluster
Linux Max RAM: 4TB. Yes, Terabyte. Thats 4096GB.

As you can see from this, Windows can't even begin to touch Linux in base performance. Yikes. Add to that Linux's rock solid stability (I had a Linux system up for several YEARS with no reboots, you're lucky if Windows can go 3 months) and Windows just isn't a challenge.

Now, to add the Server 2008 specs, since I found them in the meantime
Windows Server 2008 Max CPUs: 64 (which, unlike the other version is a CORES limit, instead of a physical CPU limit)
Windows Server 2008 Max RAM: 4GB to 2TB depending on edition
Windows Server 2008 R2 Max CPUs: 256 (which, unlike the other version is a CORES limit, instead of a physical CPU limit)
Windows Server 2008 R2 Max RAM: 4GB to 2TB depending on edition

I would also like to make this note:
Vista Home Premium at IDLE takes MORE resources and generates MORE heat than any version of Linux I've tested does under php capable webserver with MySQL server backend 10 user load. That is fucking DISGUSTING. Windows is trash. Plain and simple.