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Joel Spolsky's talk at Yale, part 1
They didn't customize their applications for different types of hardware, and drivers are made by the manufacturer, so this is a non-point.
Windows et al. were ugly, buggy and crashing due to software problems, not hardware.
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Windows et al. were ugly, buggy and crashing due to software problems, not hardware.