Friday, November 2, 2007
We All Suck…
There’s been a lot of chatter recently about the “BSoD” icon that Apple uses to represent networked Windows machines in Mac OS X Leopard. The whole situation becomes all the more amusing when you stumble upon this article within Apple’s support pages, describing Leopard’s 301st new feature - a BSoD of its own.
When it really comes down to it, can any OS vendor claim to have a product that’s 100% stable and reliable? Of course not. The bottom line is…
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Do note, that the kernel in that case is still running, thus it is not a BSoD. It is not dead. That being said, the app in question is a 3rd party piece of software that users had installed, and the blame should be put on Logitech for installing it with their keyboard software, and shipping an old version. The amount of times on Windows 95/98/2000/XP i’ve had Windows BSoD on me was because of Microsoft supplied drivers or software. Even last night while I was developing a C# application on Windows XP using Visual Studio, it decided to BSoD, because of a network driver that Windows XP had installed for my network card.
I agree with not every OS being a 100% reliable, there is a reason there are warnings in Apple’s OS that Mac OS X is not allowed to be used in nuclear power plants :P. Every OS has it’s problems, but there is no denying that Microsoft has a track record that has been unsurpassed by other OS’s.
Amen.