I recall a live teleconference when MS was rolling out Win98.
The presenter claimed it to be ‘the most tested, the most stable’ Windows ever.
The presenter reached over to the laptop to press the magic key and reveal the marvelous Win98 to the watching techno world.
[Click]
[BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH]
It was a ROFLMAO moment that went down in computer techno history.
“[BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH]”
I remind Free Republic of the real truth in this matter: the media. I was there during the “OS Wars” between Windows and IBM’s OS/2. By any measure, OS/2 was a better OS, more secure, more reliable, more efficient, more functional, than Windows.
OS/2 was based on a solid, modern object-oriented foundation. Windows was a kludge of patches tacked on to the ancient DOS foundation. Many of those patches are still in current versions of Windows.
But the media was in love with Gates, Microsoft and Windows. The media pulled the same crap on OS/2 and Windows as they now pull on liberals vs conservatives.
Windows flaws were not reported by the media. OS/2’s features were downplayed. IBM was “bad” while Microsoft was “good.”
I was there. I remember Mary Jo Foley and her ilk mis-reporting everything.
The media gave us Clinton, they gave us the current Democrat congress and they are trying to give us Obama.
Blame Gates and Ballmer, but the real culprits concerning your computer problems were the media. They are responsible for your “Blue Screens of Death” and your hours of wasted time trying to solve Windows-based problems.