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>>NOBODY except computer programmers complain about reliability
>>of Windows.  They might claim it's frustrating, but not
>>unreliable.
> 
> Really? How about some truck drivers who have
> to be put on hold while the Windoze system
> reboots, reloads, gets up to snuff and finally
> prints that piece of paper that would have
> taken about 20 seconds to write by hand?
> Or the poor despatcher who wouldn't know
> Windoze from bit-bucket except that he/she
> needs to reboot it every half-hour or so just
> to get rid of the frozen parts of it and get the
> trucks moving.

You people are talking about two different things.
There are TWO operating systems called Windows.

Windows 3.1 / 95 / 98 / ME crashes daily for many users

Windows NT / 2000 / XP is a completely different O.S.
It still crashes, but it is reliable enough for most
people.