!! 63,000 known defects in Windows !!

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Developers may overlook security holes, users may do things nobody thought of, and not all systems are identical. Software developers are human and they make mistakes now and then, it happens, but of all major software vendors MICROSOFT has the worst record by far when it comes to the quality of their products in general. Microsoft has forever been selling essentially the same software over and over again, in a variety of colorful new wrappers. Windows 95- 98 and ME are descended from DOS and Windows 3.x, and contain significant portions of old 16-bit legacy code, these windows versions are essentialy DOS-based, with 32 bit extenssions. Process and resource management, memory protection and security were added as an afterthought and are rudimentary at best. The windows product line totally is unsuited for applications where security and reliability are an issue, it is completely inescure, it may ask for a password but it won't mind if u dun supply one. there is no way to prevent the user or the applications from accessing and possibly corrupting the entire system , and each user can alter the systems's configuration, either by mistake or deliberately , of course some of those problem were the problem of the old windows and recently they have improved abit , but in fact very little has really improved. The new features in new versons of Windows all show the same half-baked, patchy approch. for each fixed problem there is new problem introduced. Even without any installation probles or serious crashes ( reinstalliation of os ) windows doesn't do the job very well, many users think it does, but they generally haven't experienced any alternatives. In fact window's unreliability has become commonplace and even proverbial : thee dreaded blue screen has featured in cartoons, screensavers and on t-shirts, it has appeared at airports and on buildings, and there has even been a Star Trek episode in which a malfuctioning space ship had to be switchhed off and back on in order to get it going (jus like windows). On an older but still good desktop PC four or five simulataneous tasks are enough to tax windows multitasking capabilities to their limits, even with plenty of core memory available. Althouygh they have been patched up to reduce the impact of some of the most serious problems, the basic flaws in the OS architecture remmain, a crashing application can still lock up the system or or throw it into a sudden and spontaneous warm reboot. Code separation, protection and sharing flaws. Windows is quite fragile , and the OS can get corrupted quite easily. This happens most often during the installiation of updates, service pack, divers or application software and the problem exists in all versions of windows so far. THe heart of the problem lies in the fact that windows can't separate applicationa dn operating system code and settings. Code gets mixed up when applications install portions of themeselves between files that belong to the operating system. Settings are written to a central registry that also stores vital OS settings. The registry database is basically insecure, and stting that are vital to the OS or to other application are easily corrupted. for the full long article visit http://lifemaximum.blogspot.com/2006/11/why-i-hate-windows-got-it-from.html PS. that is not my article( as in i didn write it) thought it was interesting decided to share with u all, the full article describes the major flows in details in it is quite long that is why i couldn't put the whole article here, read it and let me know what u think, IT is pretty interesting.