The halloween docs were not exactly earth shattering. If anything they show that Microsoft 'got it' when it came to Open Source.
They were written back when Microsoft's main server platform was WinNT4. As someone who has run a large network which went from NT4 to 2000 and will be moving to 2k3 in the next year or so, I have seen the quality of Microsoft's server products increase dramatically over the last five years.
I can thank the healthy competiton that linux/open source brought for that.
Another thing. You guys really shouldn't read these docs at Opensource.org. They are littered with EXTREMELY biased commentary from OSS zealots.
This quote from the commentary is my favorite:
"Instead, Microsoft has been trying to sandbag Linux with supposedly "objective" studies by third parties that turn out to have been bought and paid for by the boys in Redmond."
Biased studies, like
this study, which showed NT4 pantsing linux in a head to head performance comparision? The first time they ran the comparison a bunch of linux fans claimed it was biased, so Mindcraft allowed them to come in and tweak the linux server any way they wished. They then ran the benchmark again and the results were the same. NT4
squashed linux.