Reply #11: Tales of Windows pefidy

[Dogmudgeon]

Windows 3.1 crashed all the time, at least once an hour when I was editing documents on it.

Windows 3.11 for Workgroups worked a lot better, averaging a crash a day.

Windows 95/98 was much better than that. I could go for a week or more without a crash. Unless I was programming with API calls, when it would crash every several hours.

I've been using Windows 2000 now for over two years -- almost three, actually. The ONLY crashes I've EVER had happened during shut-down, and those are still very rare. And in EVERY case I've looked at, the Registry had been properly written and "closed" before the crash, which appeared to have come from some instruction in RAM, as far as I could tell with the limited experience in low-level system debugging I have.

That's right. No matter how badly I abuse it, Windows 2000 has never crashed on me in the middle of work.

Not once.

Never.

Give credit where credit is due. As much as I support applying anti-trust law to Microsoft, bad Microsoft software is largely a thing of the past.

--bkl