Re: business tools from Microsoft and Adobe
OK Peter,
I look after a small mixed network for retirees. Of nine PCs, only one, a Dell touch screen has Windows 10. In the last few days it has:-
Failed to finish a back-up to a removable HDD - Required a reboot.
Been unable to write to a USB drive even when displayed in WE - Required a reboot.
Lost a connection to a NAS in WE (In spite of be able to ping it) - Required a reboot.
Been unable to print to a shared printer (In spite of be able to ping it) - Required a reboot.
Edge was unable to connect to the Internet (In spite of be able to ping it) - Required a reboot.
Mouse disabled after using the touchscreen but keyboard still worked - Required a reboot.
Keyboard not functioning correctly after using the touchscreen but mouse worked - Required a reboot.
Scheduler has apparently run tasks without them being logged, or showing in History - Not fixed.
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During the same period on the same network a 2006 MacBook Pro with Yosemite ran without incident. It is mains only as the battery has died, and it only has 2GB RAM so it runs fairly slowly, but it has not been rebooted.
My 2011 iMac has frozen in Mail twice, but has come back after a Forced-Quit. Removing 120 Flags on the 2300 messages in 4 Inboxes seems to have fixed it (Yes, I am a slut).
I tend to agree that Yosemite, is one of the less stable versions of OS X, but based on my experience, the implication that it is less reliable than Windows 10 seems to me not to be a "straw man argument".