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  • Microsoft: "half of all crashes in Windows are caused not by Microsoft code"

    but of course this means that the other half of all crashes are



    Who writes for these guys?

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  • #2
    Not neccesarily - in the other half there can be also crashes because of faulty hardware, clearly faulty configuration etc.

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    • #3
      I think you are wrong with that interpretation!

      The other half of Microsoft's code that do not cause direct crashes are normally left on the installation CD and never gets installed/used by the average user - hence their correct conclusion.
      Lawrence

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      • #4
        As I was saying!
        Lawrence

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        • #5
          Reminds me of a few years ago when I was working at a rather Large National Telco in Australia.

          Employee oppinion survey results came back. They spent a good half a page getting excited about 30% employees responding that they trust Management.

          Two things to note, 1) the other 70% said they trust management as far as they can spit them, 2) 35% of the people surveyed were management.

          Do the sums.

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          • #6
            Thing is:
            If the operating system was written corectly ONLY the bad 3rdparty apps would crash, the OS would still be runing along nicely
            If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

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            • #7
              LOL@Sasq

              I DO agree w/ MS's statement though.

              @Technoid: I dunno about that. What i mean is that yeah, M$ can make their OS crash proof, but 3rd party progs/tools would have less power.

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              • #8
                Uhm, a better OS is detrimental to other programs because, erhm?
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                • #9
                  What Microsoft need to do is stop programs and drivers sticking files all over the place. Make life nice and easy when something dies. Installed this program it crashes windoze just delete the programme directory and everything works again.
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                  • #10
                    Microsoft HAS specified that you shouldn't do that. No program is supposed to write ANYTHING outside of their own directory... well, except to the registry. *sigh*

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                    • #11
                      Do we actually need a registry???
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                      • #12
                        I guess windows need it (all configuration etc.) but applications?

                        There are many little ones or games that I just download, unzip them and voila - all works without using registry (I think so at least. Too lazy to find registry usage monitor )

                        edit: no wait, we need it (writing to registry by applications). how windows would know with which application to open some file...and so on

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                        • #13
                          Pretty much. It's the only real way to hook in all those shell extensions without having HUGE-ass (and easily breakable) .cfg files floating around all over the place.

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                          • #14
                            The Atari ST OS had a 'desktop.inf' file (also newdesk.inf in the later versions.) that only contained some small information, such as where your icons should be and what file types should be opened by which program. But the desktop.inf file was MAYBE 32 bytes. I recall having my Windows 9x registry files inflate to about 200-300mb!

                            The other thing that usually is contained within the Registry is the time stamps for trial software. Or a lot of configurations for various games/software types are stored there as well. WHY? Since the registry is loaded when you first boot up, it slows down performance the bigger it gets (hence the longer you have Windows installed, the crappier it runs. (at least one of the reasons.))

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                            • #15
                              Do we need a registry? Yeah, probably. But why isn't it readable? Screw your registry, and you're hosed. Screw something in almost any other OS, and you fire up a text editor, fix it, and go on.

                              Registries/configs need to be an easily readable format.
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