More often, if they try to run backups with them.

Yes, diagnostics have been run, etc.

Microsoft has problems with the permutations and the qualifications and all the anti-malware stuff, unfortunately; they're phenomenal with dealing with all that, and phenomenal is just holding even with the complexity they have to deal with.

Windows 7 has been out less than a year. The vast majority of computer users are either running Vista -- which, let's face it, was a failure of epic proportions -- or Windows XP. We compare what we experience. So given that Windows XP was a success (and was released in 2001), the first successful product launch for Microsoft since then came in July of last year when Windows 7 hit... yet by the author's reasoning, we're the fools for comparing OS X to Windows XP.

Right.