Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 13th May 2007 22:24 UTC, submitted by Havin_it
"Free software is great, and corporate America loves it. It's often high-quality stuff that can be downloaded free off the Internet and then copied at will. It's versatile - it can be customized to perform almost any large-scale computing task - and it's blessedly crash-resistant. A broad community of developers, from individuals to large companies like IBM, is constantly working to improve it and introduce new features. No wonder the business world has embraced it so enthusiastically: More than half the companies in the Fortune 500 are thought to be using the free operating system Linux in their data centers. But now there's a shadow hanging over Linux and other free software, and it's being cast by Microsoft. The Redmond behemoth asserts that one reason free software is of such high quality is that it violates more than 200 of Microsoft's patents."
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2006-02-01
Also, you might have had your last crash back then, but I remember a few painful periods with Windows XP. Remote reboot exploits and the likes, some happenening within seconds or minutes from the first boot up.
I knew how to handle most without problems, but I got a million support calls because of those. XP is just now - quite a few years after shipping - shaping up a bit secure for new setups. still, careless browsing will have the box infected in no time.
And Vista already crashed on me several times, without me pushing anything difficult or resource-demanding on it. Much like the example above, with the word document. And it's a new box, so I doubt my hardware has anything to do with it.
Weird Windows crashes aren't history yet.