Have you seen this blog before: http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/ ALl the things you never knew you could do with Bash (at least a modern Linux one) and Powershell (and occasionally cmd.exe)

Also -- MS now support a full headless installation (no Explorer etc) on Server 2008: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.02.geekofal...