Many persons have been bashing Microsoft for years over its Windows operating system. From Windows 1.0 to Windows 8 the critics have been very vocal (myself included), especially when the OS does not work as flawlessly as one would expect it to, but is the bashing fair and justified?
While I have to admit that there should be some bashing taking place, we should also recognize that it is almost impossible for Microsoft to release a perfect operating system when there are so many variables to cater for in terms of hardware components and application software combinations. Mind you, I am not saying that Microsoft should just be allowed to churn out crappy software and not have us let them know how we feel about it – Windows Me and Vista comes to mind, but that’s a whole other story.
Case in point – I have quite a few friends who are “proud” owners of Apple computers and they’re always yapping about how good the OS is and how they do not experience half as many errors as they used to experience on Windows-based computers and everything is so buttery smooth and sometimes I wish they would just listen to themselves and realize how silly they sound. Be it the MacBook, iMac or Mac Pro it is really just one device made by one company running that company’s operating system, i’m surprised that there are any OS problems at all, but we all know only too well that Apple computers do have OS woes as well.
When one considers the amount of different companies involved in bringing Microsoft Windows-based computers to consumers worldwide, it is amazing that there aren’t more issues than we currently experience. In all fairness, if Microsoft took the Apple approach and made a single Windows system with components that they handpick we would have Windows computers that are as smooth and as good as Apple computers (leave the Surface tablet out of this), but as long as some manufacturers keep putting crappy hardware components into their systems we will continue experiencing problems on our windows-based systems albeit that the bashing should not just be directed at Microsoft, but at these OEMs as well.
So what are your thoughts on the issue? Did I just spew out a mouthful of tech-bs or is there merit to the line of thought? Please share your thoughts in the comment section and remember to subscribe if you’d like to receive email notifications whenever a new article is posted.
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