Bruce, I don't think you are going to find hard "evidence" for either conclusion. But Bruce's conclusion is consistent with my own experiences, and that of many other Administrators that I discuss issues like this with.
Since its inception, supporting NT 3.0 beta and onward, I have been dealing with BSOD's. In total, there have been comparatively very few times were it was a direct fault of MS code. It has very commonly been in relation to 3rd party drivers that needed reworking or updating by the 3rd-party manufacturer. This is not PR spin (of which I don't think you could find any published PR spin for either side of this argument either). This is real world experience with the NT+ products across i386 and Alpha hardware platforms using peripheral devices from many different major manufactures. There are admins on both sides of the anti-MS fence that I communicate with that would agree with this conclusion. On 10/3/05, Bruce Ediger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Steve Friedl wrote: > > > The majority of BSODs are caused by buggy third-party drivers and malware > > (rootkits, etc.) Is that part of "Microsoft's monopolistic abuse"? > > Does any kind of evidence (apart from PR-flack-based spin) exist for this > conclusion? > > Can you point me to it? > > Sincerely, > Bruce Ediger > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > -- ME2 <http://www.santeriasys.net/> _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
