[calex59]

Oh. The Blue Screen of Death. I have used Windows every day since Windows originally came out but have seen the BSOD only once in the last ten or twelve years and that was when my hard disk crashed. In that time I have NEVER seen one of my co-workers have the BSOD. I think you are exaggerating.

There is no way in he** he is exaggerating. I have run windows since before there was a windows(beta versions) and the blue screen of death is very real and very ofter shows up on MS computers. If you and your friends don't see it, count yourself lucky. It doesn't show up as much as it used to but I have seen it on all versions of windows including Vista, just two days ago on a friends computer.

Actually the first version of win95 crashed on me 13 times in the first month I had it, and so it happened to many others also, in fact MS got so many calls in the first few days after it released that they kept telling people it wasn't windows fault it was the user. Finally they had to admit it was the product. Eventually they brought out Win95 C version I believe, and cured most of the problems. Then they released Win98 and it started all over again until once again they brought out a good version of 98, Win98SE, then the same thing again with ME but they couldn't fix that POS and the XP original version without service pack 1 was also a POS, now it is a good system and they needed to stay with it instead of dumping their customers and trying to force Vista on everyone.

Through all those versions, including Win2000 and NT I might add, I saw the BSOD more times then I can remember.

Count yourself lucky if you have only seen it twice in 10 years!

[antiRepublicrat]

All I had to do to get Windows 98 to crash was run high-speed software on it like Photoshop and other professional graphics applications together. You could watch it getting less and less stable over the span of a few hours. Preemptive re-boots were standard in our office at least once a day, usually more.

[ColdWater]

There is no way in he** he is exaggerating. I have run windows since before there was a windows(beta versions) and the blue screen of death is very real and very ofter shows up on MS computers. If you and your friends don't see it, count yourself lucky.

Uh huh. If no one is seeing the BSOD, is it really there?

[roamer_1]

Eventually they brought out Win95 C version I believe, and cured most of the problems

For the record, that was Win950B... Other than that, you are on the money.

[ColdWater]

Count yourself lucky if you have only seen it twice in 10 years!

Uh, only once and it was not a Windows problem.