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All Microsoft windows users are familiar with the ‘Blue screen of death”. The product of a high school dropout named Bill Gates. Poor reliability is one of the major reasons that many users are looking for the next big operating system to install on their desktop computers. Most of the problems have been solved with the windows 2000 operating system, but while doing that; they have created even more problems. Windows 2000 operating system uses a lot of the system resources while the user does their everyday tasks. After a while the computer seems to slow down and before long their computer will freeze up and have to be rebooted. This is due to the file system and memory manager of windows being one of the most poorly written of any operating system. As a network operating system it does have a few good reasons to be implemented. It is easy and integrates well with other operating systems. It does extremely well for desktop applications but suffers under heavy network stress of everyday computing. Microsoft also claims that their operating system is secure, but they offer no guarantee. We all know about the dangerous computer viruses that have been pl