>>However, the one thing that bothers me that I can’t get used to is the increase in bugginess of programs, from operating systems to applications.
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>I disagree with the premise that software is more buggy. In fact, I think one can cite examples that show that software is less buggy. Using Windows as an example. NT, 2000 and XP require rebooting perhaps every few months if installed correctly. With Win95 reboots were perhaps daily or certainly weekly events. This stability comes even with (I'll guess) an order of magnitude more code. MS Office XP. I never have problems, but back in the Win3.1 days a portion of my week was spent dealing with problems with Office.

Evan, I agree that the Windows software is becoming less buggy. I use W2000 at the office, and I rarely have to reboot. However, at home, I still have W98, and it crashes several times a day. I was comparing the 'modern software', e.g., Windows (but others as well) with the pre-Window, pre-Bill Gates, pre-PC days. And I believe there is a big difference between these two eras of software development.