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To: grow who wrote (10391)	3/29/1998 3:17:00 PM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

He re-installed the whole system TWELVE TIMES in 10 days (including wiping his hard disc a couple of times.) This was to get a collection of MicroSoft Applications to work with each other under a Microsoft OS ...??? His experience is atypical, and it shouldn't take much mental effort to notice that. Personally, I used to work on an NT shop. Crashes were extremely rare. It is true that you have to reinstall your OS periodically (about once a year). NT would stay on continously for months without crashes (which beats MacOS by a mile). the affect desktop computing platforms have on creativity, productivity and the bottom line - and how to assess the return-on-investment factors for new and replacement technology. In each of these key measures, Macintosh convincingly outperformed the alternatives ... Which in no way contradicts what I said. Think about it. I was pointing out that ease of installation is of secondary importance, since even under a worst case scenario a typical user only spends 1% of their time dealing with installations. In that item, the Mac is thus only a 1 percent improvement over Wintel. Yet, the "comparisons" of the two OSes posted by Robert Mayo focused on that measure as if it was the only measure of OS prowess, when it's not even important.