> the number one cause of hard crashes (blue screens) in Windows 2k/XP has been video driver crashes
Where did you get this from ? A reference would be nice.
Where did you get this from ? A reference would be nice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death
I've read it other places however, and generally agree that crappy software/driver is typically the cause of most Windows crashes. Never had a barebones box BSOD on me.
So much even, that the kernel team implemented a feature specifically so they wouldn't have to deal with crash reports from people who run binary drivers. (Kernel tainting)
It's an issue of lack of economic incentive: Few users even know to attribute crashes to drivers; when the os goes down, they blame the os. The driver writers work at the driver until it reliably works for them, then ship it and forget about it. Demanding for all our drivers to be gpl seems to be a working solution.
NVidia caused 30% of Vista crashes in the early Vista days.
I'm not current on the relative distributions of say Nvidia vs ATI, but all the machine here have either Nvidia or Intel graphics in them, not a single ATI one.
MS is doing the right thing. They showed Windows 7 to the world for a year. Gave people public testing (to get ppl excited) and now are doing major stability tests before release.
I heard wonderful things about Win7. So honestly its a good thing. About time MS got a kick in the shin about making shitty operating systems. If they bounce back, they are a good company, and I don't doubt they will. Apple can't ride the "cool" wave forever.