One theory I've always had is that more people use Windows, so numerically the crashes are going to be greater and the machines which crash also have non-M$ software running (QPC excepted of course, and Marcel isn't paying me to say that).
Many hands make Windows fail ... :-) ... new proverb ?
Yet it is just the nature of the beast. Windows is a soft-loaded OS on top of a basic IO system, on which other software ( applications ) are used.
Which means some complexity, and it can fail. Despite the benefit doing it that way brings.
The machine I am writing on is Win95 with integrated IE. It very rarely goes wrong.
My other RISC OS machine hardly ever goes wrong. As the both the IO and OS are coded into a chips.
That is the different approach - the latter is a hard-coded OS with some system software support. The former is a soft-loaded OS with some hardware support.
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