> (I'm a little confused now - there was Windows 3.0, Win98, > Windows NT, etc.)
The past 10 years, not 15-20 years. > Apple also comes out with Service Packs, MS does theirs on a > monthly basis with the occasional "Oh! Crap!" tossed in for > good measure. Apple's patches aren't as frequent but they > cost the same as the ones from MS (they're free). Service packs come out about every 2 years or so. The "Oh crap!" updates are monthly. And Apple's patches are just as frequent. Every month, like clockwork. > Vista gave MS a bad reputation. After all of these patches, > etc. it's probably okay, but the reputation lingers on. A > good (read cheap) might remedy some of the reputation. I think this is in part due to relentless Apple marketing (46 "I'm a Mac" ads in every hour of television for every person on the planet wears you down after a bit) and a herd mentality in the tech writers' world. Vista wasn't bad, it was just underwhelming for a 5 year effort. It's a very stable (and easy on the eyes) and secure OS, that, unfortunately, has extreme hardware demands, curious organizational paradigms and a lax 3rd party peripheral industry that issues drivers "when they get around to it." MS has clearly learned their lesson with Vista and isn't (so far) repeating the same mistakes on Windows 7. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
