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Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery
(www.theregister.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
My Apple-using friends seem split on this when I ask them whether Macs are stable these days. I've heard from several people that their reputation for stability is a hangover from the past, and updates in recent years have been somewhat unreliable. But it would be hard to get good comparative data given that the companies won't be eager to share the numbers.