Well, at office, ppl are cursing
Windows. Very recently, one of my colleague had to finally upgrade to 4 GB RAM, and a 3 Ghz processor, even on XP, just coz the startup and loading time for each and every tool/file took ages just to open up.
Windows is used, just coz they have certain tools which are specific only to Windows......may be lobbying by them, so that companies/businesses are compelled to stick to that OS. This underlying need of using Windows is apparent even from ur post. Apart from certain Windows specific tools, Windows doesnt have anything new to offer. And for those handful of apps, u pay 6k for the most basic version of their OS. What an irony!
Not to mention the bunch of Viruses u get free on it! Either that, or u pay more & buy an AV suite to tackle that issue.
My
business data is more important and I cannot afford to keep on reinstalling Linux every 6 months
A special comment on this: U need not update it every 6 months. Its just that they release update. U need not install everytime it is available.