> Unstable, as in needs to be rebooted after most patches.

OS X is in the same boat.

> Unstable, as in needs to be rebooted about one a week just to clear
> the memory leaks (I "grew up" with uptimes measured in months, and in
> one case, years, not days).

This was true for NT and pre-2000 clients, but that's ancient history.  What
are you doing now to require this?  I have systems that run for months with
no ill effects.

> Unstable, as in two server side applications can not be run
> simultaneously without figuring out where all the conflicts will be
> first.

This is simply not true.  I won't say that conflicts don't happen, but only
under certain conditions.  This is not something I worry about too much.

> Unstable, as in because of the above spawned a new industry to take
> advantage of the fact that most Windows servers are at trivial
> utilization.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

> Unstable, as in its freaking mail program and browser was able to
> directly access the kernel.

No argument there.


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