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Windows 7 Reintroduces Remote BSoD
David Gerard writes "Remember the good old days of the 1990s, when you could teardrop attack any Windows user who'd annoyed you and bluescreen them? Microsoft reintroduces this popular feature in Windows 7, courtesy the rewritten TCP/IP and SMB2 stacks. Well done, guys! Another one for the Windows 7 Drinking Game."
I love it when Microsoft self-sabotages. Windows 7 was already being called "Vista: Fixed"; now it's introducing fun new ways for "Vista" to fail. But let's be fair to Microsoft; they don't like introducing "new" things, so in tune with this philosophy, they're merely re-releasing an old problem and packaging it differently ;)
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I don't and I am apart of Slashdot. Stop putting words in my mouth.
I hate people who are liars and since you claim I am something I am not, I hate you.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
They're not "lusers", they just have priorities different from your own.
You mean like, just getting work done? Or perhaps playing video games? Surfing the web?
Sadly, Windows fails on all three accounts. Not because you technically cannot do these things with Windows, but because the *average user* can't do them for very long with a Windows box. Windows is easy to learn - but requires and *expert* to keep running. Linux requires an expert to install, but is very easy to use from that point on.*
Worse, Windows makes them difficult for the people around them - they assume we (the "experts") know everything there is to know about a provably obsolete operating system, and expect that we'll fix their problem for free, in 10 minutes. But it gets worse. Windows users infuriate those of us who actually know a thing or two about computers:
As a Linux user, I can appreciate why non-technical people are drawn to Windows. But the very existence of this poorly designed piece of software keeps the rest of us up at night. Windows is like the abusive boyfriend:
I used to wonder why the cute girls in HS would be attracted to the jerks. Now I see the same parallels between the average user and Windows. They know, intellectually, that they are going to have problems, yet continue the relationship because it is easier to them than learning something new.
Which says a lot about the kind of person who chooses Windows. They're probably attractive, but not very smart, and probably have self-esteem problems.
The society for a thought-free internet welcomes you.
Windows is such a super sick beast that can not exist without vulnerabilities. Every hole and BSoD is not a big. It is classical Windows feature. :)
Welcome back, "teardrop" BSoD!
Yeah, except his would be correct and yours would be wrong. But we can't expect anything more from someone afraid to use their real user name.
You are indeed a software engineer who is an astroturfs for M$. M$ uses those like you Joe Wilcox to spread the lies from M$. Anyone using M$ Windoze is an addict and all M$ addicts are lusers.
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Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Friends do assist M$ addicted friends in committing suicide.
The hell you weren't, you British cocksucking faggot. You were jerking off on BoycottNovell when you found Roy Schestowitz had posted this story. The fact you hang out with that asshole, besides your other activities, is proof positive that you couldn't write a decent headline if it walked up behind you and slapped you on the back of your leather pants.
On the serious side though, do you actually fuck that huge rodeo clown you married? That's disgusting. And if you dipshit mods think I'm trolling, go look up a picture of his wife. Protip: Keep a wastebasket handy.