the way i see it, windows is more successful, thus a) has more programs available for it, thus a larger number of badly coded programs and b) a larger number of users to bitch about that fact.
there's also the nature of the way each system works; from my experience, there's more available for users to tinker with in windows thus more available for non pc-savvy users (well, i really mean the majority of computer users here) to accidentally change for the worse.
saying that, on the other hand windows has more of an architecture legacy which can contribute to potential problems (a problem with windows itself, although i'd suspect that many issues with this might more relate to how an app maybe coded itself) and has to work with a much wider array of hardware devices (not really a windows problem though, it just happenes).
an aside; a colleague at work imaged a new mac pro, after which he attempted to login, only to be treated with a wiggling login box. no details about what kind of error, be it bad username/password, trouble accessing the domain, etc, comes up in that situation. what's exactly is the point of that, withholding information like that? (mac people, please inform if we'd missed anything obvious regarding viewing immediate login error details and i'll pass it on tomorrow :)
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andrewducker) wrote2007-02-21 05:33 pm
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there's also the nature of the way each system works; from my experience, there's more available for users to tinker with in windows thus more available for non pc-savvy users (well, i really mean the majority of computer users here) to accidentally change for the worse.
saying that, on the other hand windows has more of an architecture legacy which can contribute to potential problems (a problem with windows itself, although i'd suspect that many issues with this might more relate to how an app maybe coded itself) and has to work with a much wider array of hardware devices (not really a windows problem though, it just happenes).
an aside; a colleague at work imaged a new mac pro, after which he attempted to login, only to be treated with a wiggling login box. no details about what kind of error, be it bad username/password, trouble accessing the domain, etc, comes up in that situation. what's exactly is the point of that, withholding information like that? (mac people, please inform if we'd missed anything obvious regarding viewing immediate login error details and i'll pass it on tomorrow :)