three cheers! On Jan 17, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Ardeshir Mehta wrote: > > > On 17-Jan-06, at 2:35 PM, Chris Olson wrote: > >> On Jan 17, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Ardeshir Mehta wrote: >> >>> 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? >> >> No studies, but literally millions of deployments speaks for itself. > Does it really? Or is it marketing that is the cause of these "many > more millions of deployments"? > > Speaking as a certified scientist and an amateur logician, I > *personally* 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. > >> 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. > I was speaking of *reliability*: 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. > >> 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. > I dunno about that. I can still use all the OS 7.2 software I bought > for my Performa back in 1997! > >> Reliability in Enterprise and business has way factors than just >> technical excellence. > No doubt. But I was just wondering in my post which platform is the > more reliable, not which is the technically more excellent. (I *know* > that the Mac OS is technically more excellent than Windows!) > > > Cheers. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Titanium mailing list > Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2427 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/titanium/attachments/20060117/99696c87/attachment.bin