operating system - Benefits of choosing Windows over Unix as development platform -

Whether Windows / Microsoft as a platform to use while developing on Unix dialects like Linux or Solaris Have a technical advantage?

I know that companies choose Microsoft from time to time because Unix knows that there are not enough programmers available, or these programmers are more expensive to hire.

Unix and Microsoft equally well, will there be cases where you are developing better in Windows?

just

away from the top of my mind:

• .NET (though mono is really cool)
• Visual Studio - The best IDE possible
• Excellent
• Large userbase (it's a business Things are more, but still this is a very important factor.)
• Documentation (MSDN Library in my opinion is a lot more developer than Man page)
• Binary Compatibility (This is