I still keep to my view that this uses great resources and is a perfect software engineering crisis..

The software that we build will never be able to capture the full use of the minimal hardware resources but continues to use more and more hardware which results in over compensation for the sake of progression at high costs..

Typical, there is no silver bullet for this matter..
I think what needs to be looked at and may prove profitable is the new and upcoming google OS.

One of my colleagyes have told me this and i beg to say that it works because of the great amount of resources that is needed to run the OS! what happens to those companies who wish to have reliable systems at a low cost in this time of recession?

i totaaly agree here. use what is tried and true and it'll never fail you..
I still prefer XP because when it all comes down it works smoother and way better.