you got my upvote. I mean maybe in the aughts for the average person but today it beats out osx to me. runs all apps. I mean windows apps. not so great with mac or linux or bsd ones but they do a good job of running windows ones. far better than windows does theirs. I will give you its pretty much cornered the antivirus market. its ui has been better an other versions of others beat it out. I have had much worse times fixing windows issues including hardware. there is certainly a larger group of people talking about them so finding a solution is easier due to volume but what actually has to be done to fix them is usually way more annoying. ill give you its backwards compatiblity is great but less than backwards compatibility of both mac and linux and bsd's. stable and never crashes??? I mean many of its problems can be fixed with a reboot but bsod is a well known term.