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Bill Gates Gives $20M to CMU for New Building
touretzky writes "Carnegie Mellon University announced on Tuesday that The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had donated $20 million toward the cost of a new building to be called the "Gates Center for Computer Science". Some faculty have suggested that in acknowledgment of Mr. Gates' profound influence on the computer software industry, the building should be painted bright blue."
This is an outright LIE. XP will NEVER intentionally spontaneously reboot.
The kernel-mode error checking is MORE STRICT in XP than it was in Windows 2000. In other words, if Windows or a driver does something stupid, a BSOD is more likely to occur -- which is a good thing, because if an error DOES occur, you want to know about it.
Microsoft provides Driver Verifier for all 3rd parties who are developing device drivers, and they are required to use it in order to validate their drivers before getting certified.
This is just more UNIX FUD and LIES. Why is it acceptable to say "I've never run WinXP" when WRITING about XP, which is equivalent to saying "I DON'T KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SAY."
If you are ignorant, then SHUT THE HELL UP or go get educated about it first.