Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th May 2008 14:49 UTC
We have learnt quite a lot about Windows 7 this week, and one of the things was that Windows 7 would not get a new kernel. The call for a new kernel has been made a few times on the internet, but anyone with a bit more insight into Windows' kernel knows that there is absolutely no need to write a new kernel for Windows - the problems with Windows lie in userland, not kernelland. While the authenticity of the Shipping Seven blog is not undisputed, the blogger makes some very excellent points regarding the kernel matter.
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RE[4]: Comment by FunkyELF
by 1c3d0g on Fri 30th May 2008 22:40
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Exactly. It *is* possible to BSOD Vista, but this is entirely due to driver faults, not the O.S. kernel itself.
Case-in-point: download the latest Razer drivers (if you have a Razer mouse). Terminate one of the smaller child processes like razerhid.exe or razerofa.exe through Task Manager. Then open up the main driver control panel and change a few settings. You won't get past "Apply" or "OK" without a BSOD, guaranteed.
Should I blame Microsoft for this error? Hell no! The blame lies solely with the peripheral maker and its buggy driver software. Thankfully the Lachesis mouse works fine with a generic driver, which is what I use from now on.
Edited 2008-05-30 22:41 UTC
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2005-09-21
Very true, Vista does handle more than just video driver crashes much better as well, My sound card drivers used to crash constantly (creative) when vista was just released, but it never BSOD'ed on me, and I could even get sound back by disabling and re-enabling the device, not so on XP, and not so on Linux, which would panic or just freeze all together. While windows has made alot of mistakes, it is becoming quite stable (havent shut down my vista media computer in many many months). Many companies release hardware products that were brilliantly engineered, and hired the cheapest programming team to write the drivers, and its nice to have a kernel robust enough to handle thier mistakes so you can keep on going on.