Thomas Borchert writes:

FWIW, for the PC space, most of the bad drivers are made by legions of
third-party hardware manufacturers. The fact that those legions exist
makes Windows and PCs so cheap and pervasive. It also leads to
problems. Which is why the hard- and software quasi-monopoly employed
by Apple does not have these stability problems as much. It also
explains the much lower marker share of Macs...

I find that companies that build nice hardware often build terrible
drivers, and vice versa. You end up having to find a compromise: a
vendor that produces reasonable hardware with reasonable drivers. If
stability is a priority, then you must settle for mediocre hardware
with good drivers; if features are a priority, you must settle for
bug-laden, system-crashing drivers with great hardware.

Oh, another point: The stability of the Windows PC OS has improved
dramatically with the last two or so versions.

Windows has been stable since NT was first released. NT 4
destabilized things a bit in its attempt to ape the features of
Windows 95.

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