Security against hackers is one thing. Security against a dumb user is another. I support computers all the time and probably the main cause of Windows performance and break downs is the ignorance of the user. In the case of Windows, with all the crap that people install, it just seems to break down. People typically do "typical" installs resulting in all sorts of crap getting on their PC. Unwanted browser toolbars etc etc. Furthermore, over a long period of time with use, the good old Registry files just bloat, impact on performance. I really do dislike the idea of a registry file, a file that is just a mother of all INI file but in a binary format :). If the registry gets out of jam it becomes a question of, do I clean it up or do I just reinstall the whole damn O/S. Cleaning it up becomes a task of frustration. I swear it seems to be there for inherent DRM enforcement more than anything. Remember how easy it was to move/copy a DOS game?
Now I am no Mac advocate, no Mac master, but I have been playing with PC's since my first Commodore 64. I just find the registry file a big bloody annoyance. When I was enforced to use Windows it was originally Win 3.1 and then came Win95 with that bloody registry paradigm. I do get the potential benefits of the idea but at the same time I can see more bad reasons to have such a design rather than good ones.
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