i sure would, however i would mean it in the same sense. in this case, i just mean somebody who doesn give a shit about ethics, reality or principles, they just want what they can get for themselves. this is why a lot of people use windows. most people prefer to go with the rest of the herd. Those that use macs are often (though less often than windows users) also herd animals, but maybe they think they are bucking the trend, or maybe they just think macs work better (maybe this is true!)
in my experience of Xp (which is as little as i can manage, and is limited to the rare times i have to use my flatmate machine) i have had just as many mysterious crashes and dreezes, mysterious functions not working and icons and files moving around or disappearing that i had in windows millenium. The only difference is in the shitty user interface which i think is even worse andmore insulting than previous windows versions.
as for data loss/phoning home, so you reckon that windows XP data losing function is totally seperate from it phoning home function? wow, no wonder it can't seem to do much else in any hurry. Actually the data loss is from a number of things. sometimes it might be from the randomcrashing, sometimes it might be from Microsoft strange idea of 'encryption' (which seems to mean something totally different from everybody else idea of what encryption means) or any number of other unpredictable things. the most stable windows XP system seems to be one with nothing installed on it, and preferably nobody using it.
