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Re:Gmail, We Need to Talk by Nullabillity on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @05:44AM (#10545919)
> The big win for me is that somewhere between Windows 7 and 10 (not sure when), Microsoft added a feature so that the OS wouldn't bluescreen if the display driver crashed -- it would fall back to its "basic", Microsoft-written driver, and try to restart the actual driver. This is just one example but imho Windows actually become more reliable over the years.

Pretty sure that happened in Vista, actually.

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Re:Gmail, We Need to Talk by slavik81 on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @06:14AM (#10546021)
My brother actually managed to play through a good portion of Bioshock on Windows Vista with a broken graphics card that faulted every couple minutes. The screen would just flicker black for a fraction of a second as Windows restarted the driver. I was rather impressed.
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Re:Gmail, We Need to Talk by signal11 on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @08:26AM (#10546532)
Ah - thanks, that's the only version of Windows (apart from ME) I've not used.
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