The 10,000 or more windows desktops at work “just work”. The 50 Macs give the IT dept the most hassle. 😂

Probably more a case of who the users in the organisation of those Macs are to be fair. Without casting aspersions, you know who/what I mean 😅

As noted above both platforms are very stable these days. Once upon a time I would live by the “clean slate install of windows every few years to keep things sweet” rule. Haven’t had to do that in a very, very long time.

You mean those who think “it just works” and then blame you when it doesn’t?

The same ones who think “If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen” (as if!). Advertisers have a lot to answer for.

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Probably more a case of who the users in the organisation of those Macs are to be fair. Without casting aspersions, you know who/what I mean 😅

Thankfully no longer as much as status symbol as decent laptops from Surface/Lenovo or Dell are similarly priced. Its a case of "what do you want to do that job"... thankfully I don't directly work for that company

As noted above both platforms are very stable these days. Once upon a time I would live by the “clean slate install of windows every few years to keep things sweet” rule. Haven’t had to do that in a very, very long time.

Yes, I've seen the same. There was a lot of engineering in Win7 and then increased in 8/8.1 that went into 10 to solve the problem of third party applications destablising the OS and other apps. The amount of "library virtualisation" is pretty clever, but hard to debug. Apple went the other way and made the OS read-only, gave the problem the application developers.

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I think that's something of a myth. I've not had to reinstall Windows, Mac OS, or Linux for many years now,

They all "just work".

I had to redo my brother's PC a couple of months ago because it just started to fail, Word would fail to start, he lost one drive and there were other problems, i thought maybe it was the hard drive, but that checked out fine and to be honest for the amount of use it gets, which is not a lot it should be fine. Over 20 old years with Windows i am glad not to rely on it now.

I've been using Windows since around '92 so harking back to Windows 3.0...ah those were the days 😂

I remember Windows 1 and 2 before then, such a long time ago.

I’m not that old 😅. Still the right side of fifty…just!

I can vaguely remember, trying to use!!, it must have been Windows 2.0 in an office of Aussat (satellite comms, precursor to Optus) in Sydney CBD in circa 1989 when I was doing Year 10 work experience. That long ago! Yikes.

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I’m not that old 😅. Still the right side of fifty…just!

Ha, same here... lol

I can vaguely remember, trying to use!!, it must have been Windows 2.0 in an office of Aussat (satellite comms, precursor to Optus) in Sydney CBD in circa 1989 when I was doing Year 10 work experience. That long ago! Yikes.

Yes, I only "used" 1.03 on an Amstrad PC1512 that my Dad had in his office. Then Windows 2.03/2.11 (also known as Windows/286) was on our family shared PC that I did a lot of my coursework on.

Windows 3.1 on 6 floppies. Still got them.