To: Cold Heat
Not a dumb question at all.
The internal structural design of Windows NT which is the foundation of modern Windows started out pretty good (see Dave Cutler, VMS) but was severely compromised almost immediately in the 1990’s by Microsoft’s efforts to place features and cool tricks over stability and security.
Things like making video and other drivers part of the innermost kernel instead of keeping them out in safer zones.
It’s not so much a matter of keeping up with MS as it is abandoning the principles of good software practice, to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of the way Windows is inside.
138 posted on
07/29/2015 8:40:27 PM PDT by
dayglored
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To: dayglored
So, is the W-10 build any better in this regard?
Seems like they are almost trying to PO the enterprise customers.
139 posted on
07/29/2015 10:17:17 PM PDT by
Cold Heat
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To: dayglored
compromised almost immediately in the 1990’s by Microsoft’s efforts to place features and cool tricks over stability and security.IIRC, that "live desktop crap never worked"....lol
140 posted on
07/29/2015 10:19:08 PM PDT by
Cold Heat
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To: dayglored
Your post is exactly spot-on. Microsoft ignored its customers complaints when they moved Video and Memory handling inside Ring Zero and ever since then, a faulty video driver or memory over-run caused by a bad application causes a lovely BSOD.
Really stupid on Microsoft's part.
143 posted on
07/30/2015 7:51:22 AM PDT by
usconservative
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