At 08:35 PM 2/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Oddly, while I have had any number of complaints about
>Windows NT since having to use it at work, it has never
>once completely crashed, and IE has never so much as had
>a lockup (as Netscape 4.7 does every day, but STILL not
>as much as earlier versions). I work in an office full
>of Windows NT, and only once in 7 months have I heard
>of one crashing... Perhaps it's been improved. :)
Maybe the OS doesn't tend to totally hang as much as with Win9x, but the
emphasis has simply been changed to app faults and general misbehavior and
software not Doing The Right Thing. For example when Micro$not Web Server
responds to "GET foobar.html" with "500 Internal Server Error" it just Did
The Wrong Thing. Instead of detecting that the request triggered a bug
(probably a thread segfaulted and died inside the server) and oh so
helpfully telling the user and anyone with a packet sniffer how buggy the
server is, it should *not have a bug* :-)
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