Winners don't use M$ WINDOW$, thats the advice I can give you, USE LINUX its much more fun!!!
Examples from the use of linux: Hardware: New Mouse or whatever driver needed for window environment "X" -> init 3 -> sax2 -> 30 sec. reinstallation -> init 5 && exit No reboot, no crash, no forgotten driver disks, because everything is on board! Multimedia: There are a lot of unknown media codecs for m$-player use mplayer/linux instead and have a lot of fun without the difficulties of not found codecs :-) Flexibility: 100% uptime, fast server/worksatations boottime, fast updateservice, best networkperformance, community help, error tolerant filesystems e.g. ext3, personal firewall, burning software, office software, browser, and many many more included for free, exept the licensed software bundled with the distribution
LINUX is what makes hosting providers posible to exist down here in Argentina.
My neighbour comes from there and uses linux as well :-) Philippe