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Originally Posted by fangpyre 
Also, software on Macs is better written. I still don't know why, but it is.
So buggy software doesn't happen much.
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I would attribute the better quality software on the Mac to the open nature of its operating system. As a POSIX compliant UNIX OS developers know exactly which libraries are where, and when testing the product the logging on a UNIX can be extremely verbose or not. Where as Windows it is hit and Miss.
There is a lot in the windows environment that is hidden from the developer. In the windows environment you input X and get result Y. In UNIX you get the same but you get to see how the OS comes up with Y.
I think this allows for better troubleshooting during dev. developers can assign different variables and undestand which the output is the way it is. In microsoft they have no way of knowing.
Dan