@Suiseiseki
Ultimately, the people paying the bills decide what gets rolled out to an army of mall cops, the primary qualification, according to multiple members of the C suite, is a body temperature somewhere roughly in the high 90s.
Windows seems like a good choice here. Even if it wasn't, people paying the bills and what not. They aren't paying me to be a *nix weenie, they're paying me to get it working to spec.