Ultimate windows goodies for geeks...

One of the most delightful things about Windows is that there are so many goodies to play with. You can tweak and play all day long and you're still at the "tip of the iceberg". Whether it's changing the GUI, speech-enabled apps, remote access windows has utilities for almost all your needs and if there's nothing for what you want, building one isn't too difficult either.
Sometimes I wonder why Windows receive so much flake. I understand the resentment targeted towards Microsoft and Gates due to the ultra-aggresive aka competition-stifling strategies of the company but still Windows has to be one of the easiest if not "the" easiet OS to learn. I have never worked on Mac but from whatever i've seen of it, the two does look pretty similar. No offense to Mac-ers but if tomorrow the anti-Microsoft hackers turn to Mac i'll put my wager on a 10 to 1 that Mac wouldn't be looked upon as any more stable OS.
Imagine the difficulties when you've the Government on your back, companies suing you left and right, hackers ruining you products and credibility, piracy depriving you of any significant money you could make and so forth. "Reap what you sow" seems true but I think the agenda has been stretched too far.
The other day I was reading a blog which talked about frustrations with Windows and how it was built to include a lot of "add-ins", resulting in something like a house of cards.
Here's the link: LinuxExtremist. Now what this person/blog has to say is pretty damn correct. Windows is as stable as matador on a bull but as time has passed Microsoft has made improvements in this side also. We constantly say how Linux is more stable but Linux came after Windows was there, but at the time of Windows' birth there was no blueprint to follow. Unix is ultrasafe but if you program you'll know what including a lot of fancy GUI does to the stability of your code.
But all my babbles aside, this post was supposed to be about Window goodies and i did come across this blog which lists some very interesting utilities for windows.