RE: Bill Gates gets another blue screen in public

AMEN!

Thank you,
Ronald L. Zimmerman
I.T. Applications Manager
Swiss Valley Farms, Co.      http://www.swissvalley.com
"The Good for You Company"
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James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Chuck Lewis wrote:

> That wasn't all he was doing Walden and I thought the same thing at that
> point but:
>
> Later in the 90-minute presentation, a product manager demonstrated the
> ostensible user-friendliness of a video game expected to hit retail 
stores
> in April, Forza Motor Sport. But instead of configuring a 
custom-designed
> race car, the computer monitor displayed the dreaded "blue screen of 
death"
> and warned, "out of system memory."

The fact that there was a crash in the presentation isn't the issue, 
neither is that they presented non-working software.  The problem is the 
way it crashed.  A bug in a game, now matter how bad, should never ever 
take the whole system with it.  A media application, a word processor, a 
web browser - all of these should never, ever, ever be able to take a 
system down.  The demonstration doesn't show how bad MS games and media 
apps are, it shows how utterly awful and dangerous the MS platform is.

James Rich

It's not the software that's free; it's you.
                 - billyskank on Groklaw
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