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Originally Posted by KoboNo
You would certainly be vocal if these occurred on Windows.
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You obviously don't know too much about bugs in Windows, do you?
A quick Google got me to a list of bugs that Microsoft fixed in Windows 2000 with their Service Pack 2:
List of bugs fixed in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 (1 of 4) - 176 bugs listed
List of bugs fixed in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 (2 of 4) - 153 bugs listed
List of bugs fixed in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 (3 of 4) - 120 bugs listed
(I'm not sure what happened to part 4 of 4, I can't seem to find it).
Now bear in mind that this was the list of bugs fixed in Service Pack 2, Microsoft had already fixed a whole heap of bugs in Service Pack 1. Altogether Microsoft released four Service Packs for Windows 2000, so you could hardly say that they got it right first time around. And Windows 2000 is considered to be one of the most stable versions of Windows that Microsoft ever released!
Pretty much all of these bugs would have caused problems for someone, somewhere. Some of these bugs caused user's data to be lost.
So your assertion that people wouldn't accept bugs within Windows simply doesn't hold water. As a software developer with over twenty years experience I can tell you that pretty much all software has bugs, it's an accepted given in this industry.
A few months ago, for some light relief, I had a look in the Nook, Kindle and Sony forums here to see if people were talking about problems with these other devices and I found plenty of complaints.