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I use two Windows boxes heavily, and only recently had my first crash in three years. I think the idea that Macs are easier and more reliable goes back to the dark ages of Windows 98.

Maybe I am prejudiced against Apple, though, because I have friends who are as emotionally attached to the Mac cult as they are to their irrational Bush-bashing. They are impervious to reason on either topic.

Gee, I don't know how the hundreds of millions of computer-inept people can possibly use Windows. I guess they're not able to run games, browse the Web, and read email ... /SARCASM

I know of at least five or six people who's Windows computers are gathering dust because they are bogged down in malware and the owners don't want to put any more money into them and are too frustrated to try and fix it themselves.

I spoke to a woman just today who uses Windows XP in her office... who is going to take her Compaq XP computer back to Costco to exchange it for the THIRD time in less than four months so she can start over again and not have to worry about installing all the extra stuff just so she can get email. This last time was when the SBC global tech installed DSL for her... as soon as her computer finished booting, it was covered with pop-up ads. The tech's response was "I don't know how to stop that." and he left.

I gave her a list of what to install... but she is still going to return her computer to Costco and start over. She is not alone. I am sure Costco really appreciates all these returns.... they get a lot of them... of computers with nothing physically wrong with them but infestation with spyware and adware.

I told her to install my list as soon as she got it - before she connected it to the internet - and burned a disk with the SW on it for her.