Right. Who on earth would seriously consider using an OS on which errors can occur? That's just ridiculous now that errors are a thing of the past on Unix!
Fair point -- but you'd think Winer would have enough experience to allow his apps to fail gracefully.
Printing out ugly error messages complete with file system paths in html is definitely a pants-dropping kind of move.
A lot of huge sites run great on Windows. Stackoverflow, for one.
How is that embarrassing?
Using Windows as a technologist is like farting in public. Still embarrassing.
And any "technologist" who can't see the value of Microsoft tools is next to worthless in my book.