Something to make the wintrolls happy :p 13405
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Thomas Wootten
That does make me happy. What makes me even more happy is you admitted it, and didn't deny it forever like many of these cola liars.
fwiw, my Windows 2000 box hard-crashed maybe 3 or 4 times in 3 years.
My WinServer 2003 box hard-locked over and over trying to play Half Life 2 without a video-card, using only onboard video (Intel Extreme Graphics). It would blue screen on loading a new level, and require a power cycle. I installed a 3D card (ATI 9600 - just for the game) and it has never crashed in a year and a half.
Various apps do crash or lock up from time to time.
The Ghost In The Machine You often have an interesting spin on things, Ghost, and your reasoned neutrality is appreciated by me if no one else. An Excel macro is exactly what you...
* Firefox from time to time
* Opera 8.5 every time I load a PDF (uses Adobe Reader 7.0) from a url.
* Access 2003 has a kind of random bug - if you have an option called Track NameAutoCorrect turned on, and you develop a large system (lots of forms and modules and code), at some point your file will corrupt.
* Outlook Express is remarkably stable, at least under WinServer 2003. It almost never crashes, but it (or the router, or something else) has a problem: if I'm posting to a newsgroup it will sometimes hang while sending. If I cancel the send, I usually get stuck with 2 open connections to the news server, and from then on I can't send or receive Usenet posts. After a while the news server releases the connections.
Overall, WinServer 2003 is the best desktop I've ever run.
And Vista is code-based on Windows Server 2003, SP1. It's going to be nice.
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