Microsoft has invested how much into NT? I have no Idea but I bet its enough to feed an entire 3rd world country. How much has been spent on Linux? Imagine what linux would be with that amount of financing? Want to put Linux and NT on a fair playing field throw the Linux community a few million. Even if NT could beat Linux in benchmarking it couldn't even compete with the community that Linux has. How many diehard NT admins do you know that truly LOVE there OS?