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Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. by tedunangst on Saturday November 12, 2011 @02:56PM (#3228730)
People like to blame everything on Windows, including "I dropped my laptop down the stairs and now it doesn't work right" type stuff. I think if Microsoft had replaced the blue screen with a message that instead said "Your $PC-MAKER computer is a piece of crap, buy a $OTHER-PC instead." nobody would actually complain about Windows.

[a general comment, not directly related to lewisham's problem.]

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Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. by barend on Sunday November 13, 2011 @11:41AM (#3231083)
In some regards, they did. The crash reports from Windows XP indicated that around 20% of all OS crashes originated in the display driver (1). Vista introduced a new display driver model. One of its features is that the OS will now survive a driver crash. The screen just goes blank for a few seconds.

1) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480220.aspx

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