Comment 1333 for bug 1

I have often found troubles with the new Windows in the first year of it's
releaes.   They tend to act a lot like alpha releases except you have to buy
them for a price and there is little or no support ("blame the user", "that
error message does not exist" etc) let alone efficient means of
bug-tracking/fixing.  Within approx the last year of official support the thing
becomes really quite usable but it really starts to fly about the time official
MicroSquish support ends.  Of course by then it is extremely vulnerable to
viruses and there are many known issues but thecrucial word is "known" rather
than "denied". I have been visiting a few offices in past few weeks and almost
all of them have brand-new machines with Xp.  Win7 seems to be for home users;
the type of users MicroSquish doesn't care about and doesn't mind annoying
because they can't fight back and can be easily duped by "tech support" over an
expensive phone call.

Really glad to have this space to blow off steam knowing that most of you might
disagree with the odd comment or be able to finesse a better or more precise way
of sayign the same thing but who understand what i mean because of having tried
an alternative to Windows.
Regards from Tom :)