Business in general, at least "Big" business, generally tends to behave at the level of the lowest common moral denominator of management personnel, divided by the number of said personnel, with an occasional markup by a courageous individual. You could call it the "status woe".....
Micro$oft has behaved poorly, no doubt; so have many others. I wonder if anyone has done it quite as often (or habitually?) as Micro$oft, but I don't know...truth is hard to find on the "information superhighway." Some day, all will be called to account.
Until then, it's understandable, to some extent, that M$ stuff will crash. FWIW, I've crashed the more "stable" Free OS's a few times, too. But a Windoze crash is usually more dramatic. The complexity of an operating system is enormous; what's funny is that you can get one as good as M$, probably better, for FREE, as opposed to whatever the current market value for M$ is. I think that deep down, this might rub a few people at the top in Redmond the wrong way. It's obviously bothering the SCO/Caldera people at the moment.
