On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 06:42:37 PDT, Steve Friedl said: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:50:27AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx 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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