Anyway, it is a two-way street, though. To listen to some folks around here, the uptime of Windows is measured in seconds, and about 99% of the time the power is on, the machine is blue-screened. Well, you know, I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a stop error - it's been literally years. And it's not like I'm not pushing it - I'd bet money that I push my machines harder than most folks. Obviously, I don't claim that it's completely extinct - flaky drivers or bum hardware will scram any OS - but the general characterization of MS stability looks to me to be stuck in about 1996. It's like folks stopped paying any attention to alternatives back in the Win 95/System 7 days. Whatever your perception of the OS was 10 years ago, that's how it still is today. Or so the assumption seems to be.
You're right, Mac users do mention the BSOD sometimes. I only see it where there are hardware problems. OTOH, I think I might have preferred the old quick death of the BSOD to the slow, agonizing death full of false hope we get these days -- a system that gets more unstable and starts to grind to a halt as you try desperately to save your open files, often waiting minutes between mouse clicks to do it. I get this sometimes on XP and 2003.