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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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