TurquoiseB wrote: > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> I used to agreee wholeheartedly that Windows was buggy, but I >> typically use both XP home and XP Pro every day all day, and they >> *never* crash or freeze- Of course I just run biz software on them >> and well known apps, so no processor intensive gaming or anything... >> > > I compile, debug and run computationally intensive and > sometimes still in development and thus about as likely > to cause a crash as anything possibly could be. I have > been completely unable to crash Windows XP. Previous > Windoze releases, I could crash at will. But XP is > actually pretty solid. Oh now you can get a pointer wrong and get a default error (which you'd better). ;-) But it won't crash the whole system but something involving a low level driver like a video card can bring it down. I've had XP Pro reboot on me a couple months back in fact because of that.
But for the average user they won't see crashes. One of the big reasons is that Gates shut down development a few years back and had the crew looking for bugs in the source. My friends who worked there had some interesting tales of things that were found that had been in Windows for years (16-bit address pointers where 32-bit was required for example). Then we have the people to be first on their block with Vista. I'll pass. We seem to have MS and Apple TBs here. I won't call myself a Linux TBer but I do support and promote it and believe be the primary OS ten years from now. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
