Originally posted here by gore
[B]NT is cool but one thing about it is that Microsoft used to have a thing on their web page saying that NT should be rebooted at least once a month to deal with memory leaks.
Urban legend. I use to had nt servers up for months without reboot. I had Checkpoint fw at on nt box that stay there for 9 months (until reboot due to a checkpoint fw patch). I had windows nt servers running lotus notes and we use to reboot them 4 times at years due to a lotus notes administration problem, not a NT problem. Most of the problem that had caused NT reboots (most memory leak) were related to IIS and Exchange - Although IIS come with windows, i dont consider it as a part of windows core. in fact, on those computers that ive mencioned ive never use them.

Please dont take this as a statement of "windows is fabulous" but instead as "windows is good".