Wow. After going by way of Detroit, you almost zero in on my point. You're one of the *MINORITY* of users who sets up a Guest account.
I addressed your point in my very first response;
this is a major bug for those people that experience it. Losing all your files is a major bug. It doesn't matter if it only happens to five people or five million, it is one of the most damaging things a computer can ever do. I'm something of a Windows fanboy, but there is no way that I would ever dismiss a bug like this in Windows as minor just because it only affected a minority of users.
I don't believe I ever have.
It was either DOS 4.0 or 5.0 that had the lifespan of a fruit fly. It had barely hit the market when replaced.
Quite possibly. Tell me, has anyone ever used MS-DOS 4.0 as a media/work hub and have it randomly destroy all their files?
Then, when you get into Windows, 95 was a royal PITA, unless you consider a pile of floppy diskettes for installation to be utter joy.
You're blaming Microsoft because you didn't have a CD-drive?
Deary me.
Windows 95, now on an amazing new piece of technology called a Compact Disc!
98 was better, but like damn near everything Microsoft produces, the user was better off to wait until SP 1 and SP2 were out.
Absolutely.
Only techy people should upgrade to a new OS upon release, the general public is always advised to stay away until the first service pack. Even Windows 7, which was amazingly stable for a beta, should be avoided by the general public for the first few months to ensure that it remains as good as it seems to be.
XP was something MS did very well, but again, SP1 and SP2.
SP2. XP was awfully buggy upon release, something the Vista bashers quickly forgot after SP2.
I notice that you conveniently left out Millennium, which was a royal piece of shit.
I didn't conveniently leave it out, I was listing the Windows versions which I've used and since ME was a royal piece of shit I only used it once for ten minutes on my cousin's PC. ME was a mistake, an attempt to implement some of the features from Windows 2000 back into the old 9x kernel, and an attempt to grab a quick buck before the release of XP the following year.
Vista? Please
The only people who I've ever heard report "satisfaction" with Vista were I/T types who tweaked the living shit out of it until it would actually run.
Vista runs just fine, and as someone who has dealt with hundreds of complaints from customers on the issue the three biggest I've come across are 1) it is different from XP, 2) driver/software compatibility (which is partly a third party problem) and 3) the user account control. In the year that I used it as my primary OS Vista only crashed on me twice. That's not to say that Vista is a great OS, it is a slight improvement over XP if you have powerful enough hardware to run it, but it is not the abject failure of an OS that some make it out to be. If it was then Windows 7, the tech media darling, wouldn't be so heavily based on it.
Oh, and while we're at it, what about the CONSTANT THREAT OF SECURITY HOLES with each system from 98 on up.
What security holes? Ever since I've had my own PCs I have never been infected by a virus and I don't even use any a/v software! And yes, I do download an antivirus scanner every three months or so to make sure and all I ever have is tracking cookies. Oh no, not tracking cookies!
The biggest security hole Windows has is its users, and MS's attempt to protect against it, the User Account Control, is hated by most people. They can't win.
So, considering the track record of MS, this isn't *that bad* of a problem. Yes, it's serious, but not the "One point twenty-one JIGGAWATTS!!!!!!" serious you're making it out to be for every single user.
Now you're just making shit up, which I'm fine with so long as you don't put words in my mouth which I never said. I'm not making it out to be any more of a problem than it is, I'm saying that it is a problem which affects a small minority of users and is a major problem to those people. As far as problems go it is a big one and it a priority for patching.
Apple is run by people... people (no matter how good their intentions) make mistakes. People who believe Apple is flawless are asking for problems. I take care of tons of Macs, so I see more of these types of things than an average user (and it is my job to make sure my clients avoid them), but anyone who has auto update on is asking for issues.
QFT
An Operating System is a massive undertaking involving years of work, and it is easy for a flaw like this to be released as part of a finished product. I'm not bashing Apple for releasing a flaw, but I would compliment them if they manage to implement a fix for it quickly.
