Personal experience (was: Re: Good advice! (was: Re: [Ti] Windows compatable))

[Thomas Fulton]

three cheers!

On Jan 17, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Ardeshir Mehta wrote:

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> On 17-Jan-06, at 2:35 PM, Chris Olson wrote:
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>> On Jan 17, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Ardeshir Mehta wrote:
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>>> 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.
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