On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 06:42:37 PDT, Steve Friedl said:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:50:27AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks_at_vt.edu wrote:
> > One acronym: BSOD. Why have users learned what it is, and grown accepting of
> > seeing one? Do you know any Windows users who have *never* encountered one?
>
> The majority of BSODs are caused by buggy third-party drivers and malware
> (rootkits, etc.) Is that part of "Microsoft's monopolistic abuse"?
Perhaps if they hadn't been so busy designing baroque undocumented APIs for the
use of their own monopolistic software(*), they could have designed a cleaner API
that would have resulted in more stable third-party drivers.... ;)
(*) Yes, they exist. Remember MS having to open and document them as part of
one of their anti-trust losses? ;)
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