<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 17-Jan-06, at 2:35 PM, Chris Olson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>On Jan 17, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Ardeshir Mehta wrote:</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>That said, does anyone know of any experiments done in a proper scientific way (with double blind studies, etc., etc.) to find out which is the more reliable OS - Mac OS or Windows?</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>No studies, but literally millions of deployments speaks for itself. </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Does it really? Or is it marketing that is the cause of these "many more millions of deployments"?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Speaking as a certified scientist and an amateur logician, I *<B><I>personally</I></B>* would not accept "many more millions of deployments" as proof of anything ... except, of course, of many more millions of deployments. But then again, maybe that's just me.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Windows is the hands down winner. Windows application developers have been able to deploy solutions and move from revision to revision pretty much seamlessly over the years, with only minor glitches aka Windows XP SP2.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>I was speaking of *<B><I>reliability</I></B>*: not of moving over "from revision to revision". OIOW, I was wondering how many times the average Windows user has to stop the work he is doing to solve computer problems, as compared with the average Mac user.<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV>Apple, OTOH has jumped ship too many times. The transition from Apple to Mac made all Apple software obsolete. Then we went from 68K to PPC, then OS 9 to OS X, then PPC to Intel, each time adding complexity, development cost, and alienating legacy users and developers.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>I dunno about that. I can still use all the OS 7.2 software I bought for my Performa back in 1997!<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV>Reliability in Enterprise and business has way factors than just technical excellence.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>No doubt. But I was just wondering in my post which platform is the more reliable, not which is the technically more excellent. (I *<B><I>know</I></B>* that the Mac OS is technically more excellent than Windows!)</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>