Not a saint

@ Mike and SpitefulGOD (really?)

if a company's marketing pitch says (for 20+ years) that its development process is excellent, superior, and puts out highly optimal code for a top-notch product, but the company has to release an endless, regular stream of fixes for remotely exploitable bugs, then people will point and laugh, and rightly so. they point and laugh at Comcast for lying and getting caught, why should MS get a pass?

if the same company points to other people's products and claims they are inferior, it would be more believable if this company did not continually overpromise and underdeliver (have supported Windows since before 95 came out, and Vista is the worst i've seen yet).

Ubuntu makes no promises of perfection, so no reason to whine. Apple has been putting out some marketing tripe recently, especially considering the number of big, ugly problems in the Leopard release, but a bad day on Leopard (with Time Machine) is still better than a bad day with Windows (any version). i speak as one who does not own an iPod or an iPhone, and likely never will.

everybody's biological byproduct smells, but it helps if one does not insist that one's stuff smells like roses, or stinks less than everyone else's mess.