Isn't there a video of Gates demostrating how Windows 98 can crash when plugging in a USB device?
Yeppir. I forget exactly what he's demonstrating, but there's a video of it on the net. USB ports were what finally drove me away from Windows. After I started digital photography, I had to plug and unplug USB ports a lot for downloading. Win98 couldn't deal with it, 2000 didn't have decent support at the time, so I upgraded to ME, which was probably the worst iteration of Windows ever made. Every time I'd unplug a USB device, the system would lock up or it would lose connection with the USB ports. I'd have to delete the USB ports and then reboot the system, because trying to install the device through the device manager didn't work.
I switched to Mac, and have not been sorry. It was a pretty scary step, considering I had to buy either new or upgrades to Photoshop, Illustrator, Office, and Macromedia, but it's been the most cost-effective computer purchase I've ever made. I've been using the system coming up on two years, and except for installing an Airport extreme card, I haven't had to spend another penny on it.
That being said, I have a lot of respect for MS. Nobody builds a company that big without doing a lot of things correctly. I just don't like their products.
Revenge of the Nerds. That explains it.