No! Windows has New Technologies! They will make Windows work superbly from nine to eight! 9 to 8, sure enough! Through the next Millenium! It's too kewl and also Professional! An EXtreme ExPerience, it is!
Yeesh... :-)
I gots Winders boxes that I reboot every couple of years just outta habit. Properly treated... they seem to work just fine. :-)
But... then again... we are playing around with a Beowulf cluster of about a dozen linux pizza box P4's. We're hoping to use the cluster for some finite-element modeling apps. So far it is benchmarking about 4 to 10 times faster than our current SGI Origin 3200. And at a fraction of the cost.