I was working in a college lab win Win98 was released.
Win98's initial release was a lemon full of problems. The second release of Win98 was a lot better.
Win98 was not far better than what Apple had to offer at the time. That kind of qualitative assertion is purely one of perspective. Mac OS 8, 8.5 were actually definitive improvements over 7.x. Insofar Win98's initial release, it was highly anticipated and failed to meet expectations. It was buggy as hell.
Well it is my perspective. It worked plenty good for me. Alot of the problems that people had were because they were buying junk PC's that would have been unstable no matter what you put on them. Also there are some pretty poorly written software applications out there. If you were using those then anything could happen.
BTW I had a friend who has always been with apple. His computers crashed and locked up quite a bit. Not to mention that in those days apple was always so far behind on hardware, before they would come out with something new. And there was nothing worth mentioning that could be upgraded. You had to completely throw away the old and buy new.