meh... i was going to type a lot, but decided not to
both os's have their merits. microsoft has some crazy stuff i think the open source community would take a long time to compete with. now that ms finally seems to have its crap together, things are getting better on both points.
i like unix, and only use freebsd on web servers.
i'm always looking for alternatives... and i won't stop using firebird. i like it much more than IE, and i have a lot of people that see my stuff that aren't using IE.
however, for my work, unix isn't an option, and i doubt it really will be in the near future. it's either windows or mac, and i'm not too keen on using a mac.