I dislike Redmond (with passion I hope
) not because the product is badly coded (though I assume it must be given the endless bugs and vulnerabilities) but because it simply doesn't work, it isn't fit for purpose - if I took a clean sheet of paper and set out what a sensible non-tech user would want from their laptop and software, then Windows running on a Dell simply doesn't deliver - it isn't nearly stable enough, nor user friendly / intuitive enough nor indeed secure. I'm struck by the new Longhorn tagline - "it just works" - if Longhorn just works WTF have 2000 and XP been doing for the last 5 years.
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