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so if its so stable why is

a) Vista the latest and greatest version getting SOOOO much bad press and crap thrown about it?
b) there are such holes in the OS that script kiddies with so little experience can disable, wreck and generally casue mayhem on an almost daily basis such that AV systems all feel the need to update daily.


People with little knowledge use it but I would argue they could equally use Linux and could have for some significant amount of time.

If PC's hadn't been the way we evolved something else would have come in, the Amiga or ST were equally capable of being developed in teh way that PCs have. I'm certain that we wouldn't still be sat here with teh same spec amiga as we had 15 years ago.

In my job I look after far too many servers 90% AIX, 10% windows. these are by a country mile the most time consuming for maintenance, and callouts due to infrastructure issues. There is more downtime for upgrades, patches to a matter of 10x what we have on Unix. We even are at the point of looking to migrate these services off Windows as the 'cost' of ownership to the business is so much greater.