[diverteach]

I'm SOOOOOOOOO sick of crashing windows that there is NO WAY I'd buy anymore of thier products. My next PC will either be a Mac or running Linux.

The practice of selling products like Microsoft sells, and relying on customer feedback and bug reports to work out the glitches should be illegal.

Design it, Debug it and make it reliable, then market and sell it. Not design, sell, then work on the bugs.

[devane617]

I worked for a major corporation for 20+ years that could not get enough MS products. we tested all their products because our management thought MS was better than sliced bread. we had to shove our crap as "production" then cathc the shit when all of them broke.

[Right Wing Assault]

Not design, sell, then work on the bugs.

Then, when the bugs are worked out, stop selling it and supporting it so you can release a new buggy system that you can practice debugging and start the cycle all over again.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

My next PC will either be a Mac or running Linux.

Wait for the availability of the Intel Macs. Soon, very soon. I hear that the performance will blow you away. Lithe OS, too.

[defenderSD]

What version of Windows are you running and what software are you running on it? I've been running Windows XP on a fairly new Dell machine with 3.2 ghz Intel processor, and the only thing that crashed Windows a few times was a faulty modem driver. After I upgraded the modem driver from Dell's website, Windows hasn't crashed once in over five months. There's occasionally a crash of Internet Explorer that is apparently caused by some external storage device software running in the background. You do have to upgrade your Windows software and device driver software to get bug fixes. That might fix some of your problems. Mac's have more standardized hardware controlled by Apple so they probably have fewer of these problems.

If you want to know how Microsft ended up with 90% market share, that was because Apple gave away most of its market share to Wintel in the late 80's and the 90's by refusing to compete on price. They priced their Mac's way above PC's with comparable performance and gave the market to Wintel. I believe that mistake motivated Apple to bring back Steve Jobs as CEO (a good move.)

[You Dirty Rats]

The practice of selling products like Microsoft sells, and relying on customer feedback and bug reports to work out the glitches should be illegal. Design it, Debug it and make it reliable, then market and sell it. Not design, sell, then work on the bugs.

That edict would put GM out of business by Friday.