If enough people ran Solaris, you WOULD have viruses and bad software, it's just a matter of time.
Plus the amount of time and labor to rebuild Solaris is only like ten times the amount to wipe and reinstall Windows so your problem would have to be pretty bad to have to do a complete reinstall.
I've never had to reinstall a NT with the exception of replacing a motherboard. If you aren't a total noob then you wouldn't have either.
Noobs get a mac, they're very noob friendly and no one codes viruses for them either. Or maybe Vista, because they make everything as hard as it can possibly be for people who know what they are doing and take away as many options as they can.
Maybe if you call ME the previous version, it really should have been a service pack that added some cool features, but instead Microsoft opted to make it a new operating system so they could profit from it, and it made Microsoft a lot more money than Vista ever will make them.
yeah and all linux and unix sucks too so pick your garbage.
And there is a huge difference between Vista vs. XP and XP vs. 2000.
Until new technology like SLI and Crossfire was made to not work on Windows 2000 (sell more copies of Windows for Microsoft), there really was no need for XP. And even then, it really could have, and should have just been a service pack for 2000. Just as some updates were done for 2003 server that should have also been a service pack for XP, but that never happened either (that would have made XP one sweet OS too).
Vista is just downright garbage. It is slow and buggy. If you like constant crashes and blue screens, by all means run Vista. If not, run something else. Even Windows 95 beta is more stable and that is a fact.
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If enough people ran Solaris, you WOULD have viruses and bad software, it's just a matter of time. Plus the amount of time and labor to rebuild Solaris is only like ten times the amount to wipe and reinstall Windows so your problem would have to be pretty bad to have to do a complete reinstall. I've never had to reinstall a NT with the exception of replacing a motherboard. If you aren't a total noob then you wouldn't have either. Noobs get a mac, they're very noob friendly and no one codes viruses for them either. Or maybe Vista, because they make everything as hard as it can possibly be for people who know what they are doing and take away as many options as they can.
Maybe if you call ME the previous version, it really should have been a service pack that added some cool features, but instead Microsoft opted to make it a new operating system so they could profit from it, and it made Microsoft a lot more money than Vista ever will make them.
yeah and all linux and unix sucks too so pick your garbage. And there is a huge difference between Vista vs. XP and XP vs. 2000. Until new technology like SLI and Crossfire was made to not work on Windows 2000 (sell more copies of Windows for Microsoft), there really was no need for XP. And even then, it really could have, and should have just been a service pack for 2000. Just as some updates were done for 2003 server that should have also been a service pack for XP, but that never happened either (that would have made XP one sweet OS too). Vista is just downright garbage. It is slow and buggy. If you like constant crashes and blue screens, by all means run Vista. If not, run something else. Even Windows 95 beta is more stable and that is a fact.