Agreed... and I used to *hate* windows. But once I got into the guts of NT, I started to like it more and more.
In high school it was Apples and Apple II's. Then I was a CP/M kid back when 8-bit was cool. But got forced into MS/DOS because that's what the college was buying.
Then I bought a Mac. And then a Mac Powerbook... and then got into Netware.
Then NT 3.51 happened, and it was actually pretty stable system, and started to kill off Netware. Then NT 4 blew our doors off. Then Win2k (NT 5) and now Win2k3 (NT 6).
2k3 server is a really solid product. Last summer, I rolled out the upgrade of our NT 4 domain to a 2k3 server Active Directory domain... over a period of about a month... and nobody in the company even noticed that it happened. Now we're running a 2k3 AD domain in native mode and nobody ever saw a single bit of it.
Of course I'm going to take credit for this in my self-eval for 2004, but the credit really belongs to the dudes up the street in Redmond for finally getting it right.
Good speech last night IMO...though the perfectionist in me wishes he would have called for abolition of the IRS and for AC-130 patrols of the border...
Oh, and could we opt out of SS entirely after signing a waiver on receiving Gov't money for any reason having to do with our own poor planning (and get back what we've already paid, to invest as we choose)?
Oh well...