On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 12:29:37 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

My XP machine has NEVER crashed or froze.

Apply to Microsoft for a distinguished service medal.

I think my longest up on XP without a crash is 3 hours.

Because, of course, all those XP machines in offices crash at least
twice in the average working day...

They aren't running the apps that I run ;-)

Glad we agree that the problem isn't the OS.