I really tire of people continuously running their yap about the infamous BSOD.
I used to see lots of these in early NT4 days. It was highly stabilized by the time SP6 was deployed if you had even half a clue what you were doing. I had servers that ran heavy workloads for north of a year at a time - no reboots. This of course meant that these ones went unpatched;-(
Win2k still had occasional problems, though very rare. The first service pack eliminated most problems I had as far as actual stability.
Windows XP has been VERY stable - I think Roxio is the only thing that's ever actually bluescreened it on me. True, some occasional runaway processes, such as IE, generally as a result of some plugin. But I use it HARD.
Win2k3? Hmmm....I've supported hundreds of them. HP and Dell, a few IBM's. I don't ever recall a BSOD.
Why can't people put this in the past? Why do we keep dwelling on things that are no longer true? Your credibility is for sh!!t when you run around trumpeting this nonsense. Say whatever else you will about Windows, Microsoft, the oppression, the cost, but stability in the Windows world is really of very little concern.
As far as patches, try counting the number of patches that show up for a typical Linux system when you update via yum. Not all critical to be sure, but the idea of not patching a Linux install isn't practical either.
Just what I needed. One more tick mark on my list of french people who behave like complete asshats. Of all the cultures I've encountered, I had a vague suspicion that I disliked the french while being neutral to very positive about most others. Until recently when I visited a resort in Mexico where over half the patrons were from France, whereupon I became very certain of my feelings. Very exclusionary of other languages, and really seem to feel that they should have some special privilege of treatment. Newsflash to all the French: The rest of the world is NOT here for your convenience, or to serve and entertain you. The rest of us accommodate diversity, I suggest you do the same.
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I really tire of people continuously running their yap about the infamous BSOD. I used to see lots of these in early NT4 days. It was highly stabilized by the time SP6 was deployed if you had even half a clue what you were doing. I had servers that ran heavy workloads for north of a year at a time - no reboots. This of course meant that these ones went unpatched ;-(
Win2k still had occasional problems, though very rare. The first service pack eliminated most problems I had as far as actual stability.
Windows XP has been VERY stable - I think Roxio is the only thing that's ever actually bluescreened it on me. True, some occasional runaway processes, such as IE, generally as a result of some plugin. But I use it HARD.
Win2k3? Hmmm....I've supported hundreds of them. HP and Dell, a few IBM's. I don't ever recall a BSOD.
Why can't people put this in the past? Why do we keep dwelling on things that are no longer true? Your credibility is for sh!!t when you run around trumpeting this nonsense. Say whatever else you will about Windows, Microsoft, the oppression, the cost, but stability in the Windows world is really of very little concern.
As far as patches, try counting the number of patches that show up for a typical Linux system when you update via yum. Not all critical to be sure, but the idea of not patching a Linux install isn't practical either.
Just what I needed. One more tick mark on my list of french people who behave like complete asshats. Of all the cultures I've encountered, I had a vague suspicion that I disliked the french while being neutral to very positive about most others. Until recently when I visited a resort in Mexico where over half the patrons were from France, whereupon I became very certain of my feelings. Very exclusionary of other languages, and really seem to feel that they should have some special privilege of treatment. Newsflash to all the French: The rest of the world is NOT here for your convenience, or to serve and entertain you. The rest of us accommodate diversity, I suggest you do the same.