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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4429671" data-attributes="member: 710">Because some hardware producers can't be bothered to produce good hardware drivers (especially for older hardware). Because software developers consistently ignored Microsoft "Best Practices" when developing software for Windows, and thus now running into all those problems with the new security features suddenly making "Best Practice" "Enforced Practice"? (What do you mean, I am not allowed to write in the program installation directory and have to use the User Directory? What do you mean, I don't have administrator privileges? Is this Unix, or what?)And the other reason of course is that Windows XP, thanks to Service Pack 2, is pretty secure and stable. If you never need the Microsoft Support, why bother switching? Well, still is no argument to actually use Vista, admittedly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I think my MacBook had more glitches then my Vista PC, but both occur only in a negligible frequency. Stability is not the issue on either system, I think. Security is a little more so, but I am worried that my Mac might have more weaknesses here then Vista - and with greater acceptance of Macs on the market, the likelihood of "evil hackers" exploiting this increases. When this will be an actual risk (especially when "carefully" using the Internet), I won't guess. The more interesting matter is which system to get to get the most software and hardware, and in that case, I'd say Windows XP >= Windows Vista > Apple.</blockquote>

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