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Heh, very late post, but I only just found the link since I rarely look at Mac sites. Anyways... "“And MS-DOS, DOS, whatever, is still there. I could care less about 16, 32 or 64 bit...it is there. The back door is there and the crackers are still going through it. End of story.” 1. The hacker would need to get through the firewall first. This is practically impossible." There's still people out there that have no idea what a firewall is. There are still people running XP SP1 because they heard SP2 will keep their programs from working. A solution is only a solution if the person can implement it, or even realize it exists. "2. The hacker would need administrator privileges to do anything harmful with MS-DOS. Assuming that you are even remotely computer-literate, you will not be running Windows with the administrator account and will have a strong password applied to it. Not only is getting access to the computer near impossible, but even if they get that far it is near impossible to gain administrator privileges." What's your definition of "computer-literate"? Mine is someone who can go online, check e-mail, web-surf and play games. My grandparents can do these things (to my amazement, since they have trouble doing anything else). They don't know what a firewall is. They're still stuck on dial-up. They run it with admin-like settings, and I wouldn't dare try to get them to do otherwise because I'd get nothing but bitching that they'd have to input a password every time the comp went on standby 'n blah blah blah...anyways, they're computer-literate to me, and yet they don't use strong passwords or use a non-admin account. Please define your definition of "computer-literate" next time. "Bull. Windows XP does NOT have BSODs, they restart themselves. Anything similar to a BSOD is from the computer’s BIOS which means that it is a hardware problem and can occur on any computer regardless of operating system." All I can say is..."The Hell?!" XP DOES still have the dreaded BSOD. It's happened twice on two different laptops (once on each to be clear). Once on the older laptop after installing SP2. It installed, rebooted, then came to the BSOD, then rebooted, BSOD, reboot...you understand. The second time came on the new laptop, and I believe it to be a conflict between CA's eTrust Internet Security Suite and Webroot's Spy Sweeper. Obviously the second time isn't the fault of Windows, but the fact remains that the BSOD still exists...hell, I can never go into my school labs without seeing at least one computer stuck on the BSOD or constantly rebooting to it (the students break those things WAY too much...and all the comps ARE XP, in case you were wondering). Anyways...I believe I've made the point. " My computer never freezes. Nor does my parents or sister’s. The only “lock ups” I experience are when I explicitly lock the computer using the Windows+L keyboard combination." Now, I've actually had more Macs lock up on me than Windows, but this was happening back in high-school where we were still using OS 8. Now in the present, Windows has completely frozen on me 3 times (still counting times from Windows 98), Linux has yet to do it, and I couldn't tell you how stable a Mac is since I've never used any version of OS X. Anyways, the point...Windows crashes, but isn't as crash-happy to me as it is to some people. "“Directory/Registry failures” Never experienced this either" If the person is talking about registry problems so bad the OS can't function anymore, yeah, I've never had that happen. However, uninstalling a program almost always leaves me with now-invalid registry entries. That kind of "failure" happens all the time. "“besides installing bad hardware drivers”—and that only requires an upgrade installation, not a clean one. There is absolutely no reason to perform a clean installation of XP." Uhhhh...outside of spyware and virus infestations so horrid that it would take less time and effort to rebuild the hard drive. And I've seen this while simply working in retail. That's what back-ups are for. Just make sure to back-up BEFORE the problem >_>. So there you have it. I hate Microsoft as a dishonest company (And for all those complaining about the FUD being directed at Microsoft, Microsoft spends quite a bit of time spreading FUD about Linux, so stop the whining), I hate Microsoft software (Windows included) for their crappy security (IE had 70 holes from 2003 till now, nearly 30% remain unpatched), although I'm stuck with it until I can play my games on my Linux box, I enjoy learning Linux, and I'll probably never willing touch a Mac because of the crap that happened in high school. That's my opinion, no matter how wrong I am. Don't like it, tough.