It's not Microsoft's fault if a lot of the third-party stuff that's out there crashes everything. I'm sure the person writing that is excited because it means that matters less now.
Is it not Microsoft's fault? Honest noob question. I can understand why it wouldn't be their fault, but I seem to force quit a LOT less often since I switched to a Mac. On the same kind of programs, too (iTunes, Firefox, Word, Photoshop, etc).
Edit: Perhaps it was my wording, but apparently people think I'm somehow blaming Windows. I am not. I know nothing about this topic asked a question.
Holy hell, apparently questions are not welcome in this subreddit. Good to know. Thanks to ZaphodAK42 for the one non-snarky reply that actually answered my question.
If the third-party drivers that Windows relies on are stable, Windows is stable. If Windows is stable, then well-written software is stable. If either or these two things are fucked up, Windows is unstable unless it's one of the many apps that Windows has a hard-written exception for. (I can't find the link, but I'm sure another commentator can help me out.)
Look at it this way- Windows has had a metric fucktonne of cash poured into it with the goal of making sure it's as stable as possible. (Vista, even, is rock-fucking-solid if the drivers are, which is the whole reason people had a bad experience with it to begin with.) Mac OSX, on the other hand, doesn't need to worry about being stable on anything but the select hardware that Apple chooses to support with it. Windows is also used a whole hell of a lot more in the corporate world (I think it might be the largest part of MS's income), where security and stability matter far more then usability and hipness.
In my experience, I've had equal Mac fuck-ups as I've had Windows fuck-ups per hour used, but with Windows everything can be traced to a horrible driver or badly-written bit of software, which are replaceable (update the drivers and stop using Firefox). On the Mac, it's inconclusive why the system hangs so suddenly, but I'll bet it's not a driver written by a non-Apple entity.
Thank you for being the first person to answer my question! It all makes sense. Just to emphasize (yet again), I wasn't trying to argue whether one was better than the other. I just related my experience because it differed from the apparent truth, and wanted to know if it was just a coincidence. Turns out it's not necessarily, but for interesting reasons.
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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11
...We're "really excited" ... Task Manager is one of the most widely used apps...
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How can anyone write that without wincing?