<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 17-Jan-06, at 1:16 AM, Mikael Byström wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Ardeshir Mehta said:</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Uh ... I dunno about the rest of you, but my wife's Windows machine - the one her office insists on her using - crashes, seizes up, or is just plain annoying, at least *ten* times more often than my TiBook.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>I'd say that definitely makes my TiBook more of a VIABLE alternative for general computing!</DIV><DIV></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>That is not common experience so it proves nothing about general computing (what's that really?) outside of your personal experience. </DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Well, my personal experience is more important to *<B><I>me</I></B>* than any number of research findings ;-) !</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">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? (I know that it *<B><I>can</I></B>* be done, since I have a background in agriculture, and in agriculture such experiments can be done.)</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>