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Microsoft Denies Windows 7 "Showstopper Bug"

Posted by kdawson on from the show-must-go-on dept.

Barence writes "Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has taken the unusual step of responding in the comments of a blog posting that claimed Windows 7 was suffering from a potential 'showstopper bug'. Stories had been sweeping the Internet that using the chkdsk.exe utility on a second hard disk would lead to a massive memory leak bringing the operating system to its knees in seconds. Responding to a blog post titled 'Critical Bug in Windows 7 RTM,' Sinofsky wrote: 'While we appreciate the drama of "critical bug" and then the pickup of "showstopper" that I've seen, we might take a step back and realize that this might not have that defcon level.' He signs off with the words: 'deep breath.'"

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  1. Re:7 Bashing by godrik · · Score: 4, Funny

    # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/windowspartition

    my pleasure.

  2. Payback is a... by gklinger · · Score: 5, Funny
    Dear Microsoft,

    It sucks when people spread FUD, doesn't it?

  3. Re:What about this one? by lawnboy5-O · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its NOT a Bug.... its a FEATURE! It's from M$ correct? That's the way its supposed to be...

  4. Re:RAM optimization by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "isn't not unresponsive"

    Congratulations! You have plumbed a new depth in illiteracy. That's a triple negative. Did you really mean responsive or unresponsive?

  5. Re:What about this one? by dna_(c)(tm)(r) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyways you could always copy the files and boot sector from the small partition to the Windows 7 one and raze the small one, then you just need to edit the BCD registry using EasyBCD or bootedit.exe to point to the correct partition on boot. But yeah those are both WINDOWS tools... but bootedit.exe should be available from Windows 7 Setup on the DVD if you mess up and can't boot into Windows (press SHIFT+F10), and fixboot.exe can install the boot sector onto any partition.

    And then they say Linux is difficult?

  6. Re:What about this one? by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, at least it no longer overwrites GRUB when installing (or at least Win7 RC didn't do that) - while XP always did.

    That's a bug and will be fixed in Win 7's first service pack.