If you knew anything, you'd know that the BSOD, though annoying, is actually very useful because it gives you all the diagnostics you need to fix the problem. Unlike Mac OS X's pretty kernel panics, which tell you nothing.
You are right, if I knew anything...
Not being a computer tech person myself or knowing the A-Z history of Microsoft and what they produced, let me tell you what I DO KNOW...
My first Mac I purchased along with a friend in CompUSA back in Aug 1995. What's special about that date? Windows 95 came out at midnight. My friend convinced me to buy Mac instead of PC mainly because she and her husband said all their friends that had PC's used them as basic paperweights because they didn't know how to get the best use out of them as say someone like you. And judging from the mad rush and throngs of people buying an OS at midnight so that they could experience something better, leads me to believe the advice my friend gave me was correct.
Lets fast forward thirteen years to Christmas 2008 shall we...
My neighbor's girlfriend got a PC laptop last Christmas. Brought it home and there it sat because even with the 4 GB RAM, the thing was slow as molasses with all that bloatware and other junk. I asked why not get rid of it, and clean it up. She replied, my brother's better at doing that than I, so I'll let him take care of it when I go back home for Christmas (she being on the east coast, family on the west coast). One - this would definitely be a premiere ad for Apple to run regarding MS laptop hunter ads. Two - she may have been lazy or just the thought of having to mess with the system gave her worries of doing something wrong and making a bad situation worse as opposed to, oh call me crazy, something working correctly right out of the box. I guess we are back to that "PC users used them as paperweights because they didn't know how to get the best use out of them as say someone like you." idea.
Let's go to near present day, shall we...
Another neighbor down the road, her son visited an ESPN website and some "anti-virus" company put some malware program into her system causing pop ups saying your computer is infected. Who did my friend call, a guy with a Mac to see if I could help. Being able to count the times I sat and used a PC, actually used a PC, on two hands, I went over and looked at it. I asked her to navigate to the Add/Remove application function [I'm not totally lacking Windows knowledge, I do read MacRumors
] Seeing that there was no actual application there to remove limited me from further help but knowing that she had talked to a friend with PC know how, I said call him. She did, and told him I was there trying to help but I'm a Mac guy to which he told her "We'll forgive him" and when she told me that, I said "Hey, who is over who's house, trying to fix who's computer?!" Anyway, he told her to go to the Add/Remove function also, to which I grinned at my friend, he came up empty handed, but he said the next day he could help get rid of it by giving her a program to run, however, the infestation was a time limited virus and it went away on its own. Real nice of a anti-virus software company infecting your computer and then enticing you to spend money to buy their online service to get rid of what they just installed. Fortunately, me and my Mac never experienced that.
In fact, the four Macs I owned since August 1995, I filled them up with a bunch of stuff... photos, letters, documents, visited tons of website, e-mails, even purchased a WYSIWYG accounting software (bigbusiness.com) and helped my friends with their business selling a 'learning English' program from the UK (Letterland.com) to the public schools across the USA, you know the stuff PC users do and never in my four computer usage did I ever have to worry about any of my Macs "pretty kernel panics"! Not saying it doesn't happen and that it doesn't exist, just telling you my run in's with PC and my Mac! Go Apple!
