[calenel]

"Mine never crashes. Really. If it did, I would definitely NEED something else, since 50+% of my interface with computers is through IE, and I work in this field as a professional."

Same here. I have half a dozen PCs and servers in the house on all sorts of hardware and versions of Windows as old as '95, and I just don't have those problems. Maybe it isn't MS OSs at all, but the junkware they put on their PCs.

[shellshocked]

"Maybe it isn't MS OSs at all, but the junkware they put on their PCs.

"

I find that to be the case many times. One company was using Novell for the network component, but they continued to blame MS when their systems crashed. Novell was/is buggy, and their client applications, a ton of them, made for a nightmare. Removed Novell and all was well.

A neighbor had crashed Windows 98 daily. I found so much poorly written, junk software they didn't know they had installed. When buying a cheap web cam or DVD device, the Korean or Chinese manufacturer loads all kinds of junk software. Removed said junk and all was well.

I could give a hundred stories like those, but people will balme the OS when they load up their machines with junk drivers and software.

[SwordofTruth]

Maybe it isn't MS OSs at all, but the junkware they put on their PCs.

If the OS was stable "junkware" wouldn't crash it.