Vista

Looks at common denominator in all of SteveH's PC woes, SteveH.

Because an inferior OS would manage to retain a 90% market share wouldn't it?

Alfas are less reliable and no more functional than Kias.

Hey look, I can make rubbish up on the spot too!

Especially as they have a closed hardware platform to test on.

XP to Vista is nothing like 98SE to WinME. 98SE and WinME shared pretty much everything. XP and Vista have completely different kernels, driver models, network stacks etc etc etc. WinME was Win98SE with System Restore bolted on.

Both easily fixed as one-off crashes after an uprade - never to be seen again.

However, I do find it quite amusing that some people have to go trawling the 'net for any Apple issues to justify to themselves why they run a bug-ridden heap of s**te OS.

Think security prompt in Linux.

You're making the mistake of equating market share with quality and performance.

That's OK, 'cos you made the same mistake when you bought a Ford Crapi and a Ford Mondeo.

The Escort was the best selling car in the country for many years, but it was utter s**te compared with most of the competition.

You keep repeating this as if it were true, MacOSX has been 64bit since Tiger, three versions ago and XP64 (a) doesn't work and (b) isn't five years old.

Still, you're a Yorkshireman so admitting you're wrong and getting anything right are simply not possible for you by birth.

Then you've never bought it.

That's "a lie" HTH.

Only Microsoft find it an achievement to make users pay for beta software.

The Toshiba I only touch when it's handed to me because Windows has broken something......

Did you read what he posted?

If you did, you got a very different interpretation of it than I did.

He didn't look at technical details, more the way we'll look back at vista when Win7 comes online.

utter s**te - what an Escort was from gen III onwards.

utter s**te - most of what Steve H has posted about wintel machines.

By easily, you mean start up in safe mode, disable an item, reboot and if it still does it restart AGAIN in safe mode, disable another item and continue ad infinitum until it actually boots.

Had the same happened in Windows, you merely boot into safe mode, fire up the event viewer and it'll tell you what crashed unlike OSX where you're left to guess what went wrong.

Didn't have to trawl at all. OS X BSOD is all I typed into my 7MB browser and google gave me pages of it.

Even not looking at the technical details then, Vista is considerably different to XP.

The MK3 Mondeo which was named market leader in it's class? The Ford Capri which was a best seller in the UK market?

Because the Morris Marina, Triumph Dolomite and Vauxhall Viva were all superior cars weren't they?

Well, it depends on what you're measuring - Windows and OSX applications are very, very different.

Once you've gone searching and adding up all the little bits which get scattered around your hard drive, making it nigh-on impossible to really de-install anything, it looks quite different.

I refer you to what was posted.

The Mondeo was like a B5.5 Passat without the quality.

Move on 10 years.....

The MkIII onwards were all pretty s**te compared with a lot of the opposition.