> When it first came out, it was legendary for crashing on people.

Really, do you have any references for that fact or did you just make it up?

I only ask because it is the complete opposite of my experience of several 
computers using XP (and I guess most of the other half million beta 
testers).  It's also odd that Wikipedia doesn't list "instability" anywhere 
when talking about XP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_XP

You'd think if early releases were "legendary" for crashing it would be 
mentioned somewhere?  In fact all I could find were references to how stable 
it was.

> The company I work for avoided upgrading to it for a long time because NT 
> was so much more reliable.

Of course a new OS should be fully tested with all the existing software 
before being rolled out, that's different to the core OS being unstable and 
crashing though.  Wasn't XP based on the NT core?

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