@Igor: For management I do feel it is a little bit more tricky since everything isn't just a text file. However, we use some Powershell, Group Policies, and WSUS as management tools (I talk about this in this post: http://blog.serverfault.com/post/1097492931/). Windows also has other management solutions I haven't gotten into yet. So although I am a believer in what Raymond refers to as Textuality in the Art of Unix Programming, it doesn't mean other options don't exist.