This has been my point all along. I am not a Windows zealot, but I truely detest the Unix/Linux/Solaris/etc crowd that believes that their OS is the best thing since sliced bread and NEVER has problems like Windows.
Glad we agree on this.
I'm not ashamed to say I earned my keep working with Microsoft products. Now days I work on mid-range unix servers. None of these vendors are perfect. IBM, Sun, Microsoft all have their patches.
I don't have a real high opinion of a lot of Microsoft software these days, but they've had a few hits, IMO. DOS 5.0 was good, and Visual Basic 1.0 was cool. VB had a built in development enviroment, the forerunner to Visual Studio. It was the bees knees back then when when you wrote a Windows program, you wrote in in DOS using MS C+ 6.0 (if I recall). Workbench was still a DOS application. Edit Code. Start Windows. Run Program. Crash. Reboot. Edit Code. Start Windows. Run Program. Crash. Reboot. Frankly, Windows has come a long way.
I am not a computer bigot. Compuers are apolitical. They're machines. Use what suits you. For some people, that's Windows, for others a Mac. Some people need large, expensive servers, and some people need cheap boxes. Linux is really good, better than a lot of people who bash it realize. People that knock it really haven't seen what it can do.