Bash head Here X....

OK so it's 7:53 at night and I'm reinstalling the computer... YES AGAIN! I've had it with Vista, and everything it stands for! I'm putting win2k back on and it's staying till something else comes along that's WAY more reliable. I went to win2k with the laptop about a week ago and i found myself doing WAY more than i wanted to do with the lap top, and it's slower and has less memory!!! well, anyway enough about that rant, on to something more my style... I have a question. How come you have to Reboot windows 30 or 40 times to reinstall something.... and were not just talking windows 2000 but even vista, you make the slightest system change and BAM! your rebooting your machine. I just think Micro$oft has been in the operating system business with PCs since what, 1983? perhaps earlier... here we are 2007, and ... Please wait wile we reboot your computer because you made a two character change to this configuration file. WTF? anybody who's been around to the other side of the block knows you almost NEVER have to reboot a mac or a Linux box for that matter. So what gives? is it just laziness or, no competition that drives this. Micro$oft seems to be so good at stealing open source software and getting away with it *Ehehm... Qteee ... eh, cough cough* sorry just clearing my thought; perhaps they should steal a few software engineers from the other camp to show them how to write a kernel better, or better yet; take a stand, realize that there platform is out of date, and stop perpetuating compatibility with older platforms at the cost of performance, reliability and system security. But what do I know, I'm just a cable guy. See you all on the flip side.