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Cayble 9th Jul 2010
@hito_kiri
I just have to love this! hito_kiri says:

"I always had problems with Windows, all my friends have always had problems with it, my college has had constant problems with it"

How could this possibly be? REALLY!
How?? You had problems, all your friends had problems, your college had problems...this Windows OS must be junk! By what your telling me Windows is just plain garbage cut and dried! It has to be crap if you and just about everyone you know has problems with it. It shouldn't even be allowed to be sold as far as I'm concerned by what you just said because it is truly junk if that many people out of a group, including an educational institute are all having these problems with Windows. Who would purchase such a thing as an OS thats guaranteed to give you and anyone who uses it problems? I wouldn't. NO SIR! No how no way. Linux is free. The fact is if anything even remotely close to what you are implying was true Microsoft would have been out of business years ago.

There is simply no excuse, explanation or story that can be told that would explain how Windows could be so problematic as you and many of your ilk claim it to be that could explain how Windows still has 90%+ in the marketplace. The world is not made up of beggars for punishment that love computers that have problems continuously.

Well, here is the likely answer...

I likewise went to a huge university that used Windows. With thousands of them through out the campus, and of course students in the tens of thousands with their own computers, again about 90% Windows usage. Almost everyone I know except a few use Windows. And guess what?

Problems have been few and far between. Of course we know its a cut and dried fact that the way Windows is designed for ultimate user friendliness and maximum forward and backward compatibility as possible with hardware and software its a massive design that does have some problems because of that from time to time, BUT!

Compared to the way most Windows haters make it sound, the problems are not anything like continuous or even frequent or even often. And when a problem does creep up its usually not of the serious type. I have four Windows based computers at my home and a Windows based laptop at work and the last time I had a serious problem on any of the five was almost 3 years ago. I think all in all thats not too bad and certainly not deserving of anything like the kind of implied problems that the typical Windows hater loves to spew.

Windows computers are not subject to frequent lock ups, BSOD, and if one has a decent free and updated anti virus on their system they will not find there HD filling with malware either. Those types of claims, or implications are barefaced lies where the person saying it should know better, and where the person dosnt know better statements like that are a prime example of "know nothings" spouting off and just looking foolish.
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