The battle of hypervisor footprints

Microsoft's stance against the statement in Vmware's official site saying Hyper-V has a bigger footprint then ESXi :

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/08/12/hypervisor-footprint-debate-part-1-microsoft-hyper-v-server-2008-vmware-esxi-3-5.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/08/14/hypervisor-footprint-debate-part-2-windows-server-2008-hyper-v-vmware-esx-3-5.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/08/17/hypervisor-footprint-debate-part-3-windows-server-2008-hyper-v-vmware-esxi-3-5.aspx

      Hyper-V Server 2008 vs ESXi 3.5 | June 2008 - June 2009
      Hyper-V: 82MB footprint increase with 26 patches
      ESXi: 2.7GB footprint increases with 13 patches
    Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V vs ESX 3.5 | January 2008 - June 2009
      Hyper-V: 408MB footprint increase with 32 patches
      ESX: 3GB footprint increases with 85 patches
    Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V vs ESXi 3.5 | January 2008 - June 2009
      Hyper-V: 408MB footprint increase with 32 patches
      ESX: 2.7GB footprint increases with 13 patches

and now Vmware's official reply :

http://blogs.vmware.com/virtualreality/2009/08/our-position-on-hypervisor-footprints-patching-vulnerabilities-and-whatever-else-microsoft-wants-to-throw-into-a-blog-post.html

I'm leaving the final decision to you :)