Originally posted here by Striek
A professor of mine put it best when he stated that Windows XP is comprised of approximately 10 million lines of code written by college grads thier first year out of school (who else would work for Microsoft?). Once I realized how true this was, I stopped wondering why Windows is so full of holes. It's written by a team of newbies in locked rooms chained to thier desks and only tested by people who want to sell it. Linux is written by experts around the world who stand to make an ass of themselves (at the very least) if they screw up. It is then tested by people who are designing the product not for profit, but because they are personally motivated to better thier programming skills. When they test it, they look for reasons NOT to release it, unlike Microsoft.
Not true at all. I deal with MS CPR(critical problem resolution) on a frequent enough basis to know who the top exchange and platform engineers are. Most of them are older than I am, and I am way out of college. On the rare occasion that I have interacted with a developer, most of the time the CPR techs handle interfacing with clients, they were atleast my age or older. This is just the usual linux is better crap. When in actuality both OS'es have problems, and both models, open source vs. closed source, have issues.

Just so you know, our current availability is running in excess of 99.999% for 2003 with 209 defects per million for the year. This is with 70k mailboxes delivering over 5 million messages a day. Pretty high availability if you ask me. It is all about process and procedures.