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I come from days of mini-frame systems and Windows NT - which was horribly notorious for blue screening at random... My issue is more to the point of getting stuck in a situation where I do actually feel Microsoft, at this point in time, does understand the overall needs of a business and is not only stable but cost effective to run your SMB business applications upon.
With that being said, I think I would completely agree that an appliance based model can be somewhat better - again depending upon partners. For instance, I have had stellar results with Barracuda Networks. It is a low cost solution which does exactly what it says it is going to do, and has regular updates of firmware and signature revisions.
On the flip side, many of the "proprietary solutions" offered by vendors were either too protective and closed, or those higher end solutions, like a Cisco, were at that time more costly both from purchase price as well as ongoing support costs.
I really liked your example of printers running MS OS's... that strikes a chord with me from the EFI standpoint. I've never been impressed with that b/c those vendors often don't support the OS - which should actually be part of the solution - not my problem to deal with. This ends up resorting to a finger-pointing contest - and I know we all enjoy this.
PS - the telephony solution is a hybrid model where the phones and switches for pure telephony are appliance based and the VM and Call Management system is windows based. As it turns out, it is very robust in general with the possible exceptions of windows update and lightning strikes ;-)