Windows Vista demo crashes at Best Buy
By Jonathan Schlaffer
Best Buy was one of the first retailers in the US to have Vista demo stations where anyone could walk up and check out Vista. All, if not most of these stations had Vista Home Premium or higher to show off Aero Glass, DVD authoring and other features that are not available in Home Basic which I still contend is useless.
It might be interesting to see stores get Ubuntu demo stations as well, put them next to Vista and see what happens. I said “interesting,†I don’t necessarily mean it would be a good idea. But chances are good that what happened with a particular Vista demo would not happen on Ubuntu.
A particular Vista demo decided that it was going to have a bad day and presented users with the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) - click for a larger version of the thumbnail. A BSOD can be caused by any number of reasons, memory faults, bad hardware, bad drivers, faulty registry entries, left over parts of programs that have been uninstalled and so it goes. Many people like to blame Windows for their problems but rarely is a BSOD solely the problem with the OS itself.
Most BSODs are the result of poorly written third party drivers, installation of a bad driver or it could be the condition of bad hardware installed in the system. It’s easy to blame Windows but it’s almost always the wrong thing to do.
Even Linux will go up if it is installed on bad or faulty hardware; I don’t know what it would do with bad drivers though, if there are bad drivers on Linux.
Basically, stop blaming Windows for your problems and use your computer smarter. At this point I’m tempted to rename BSOD to VSOD (Vista Screen of Death) just to differentiate Vista errors from previous versions of Windows.
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“Most BSODs are the result of poorly written third party drivers, installation of a bad driver or it could be the condition of bad hardware installed in the system.”
So it seems the Microsoft “method” of building an OS is doomed. As long as they depend upon third party drivers there will be BSOD on their OS’s. And there has been in the past too. Why a BSOD happens is only a concern to the techie or geek. To the general public it’s just a PITA. The BSOD means that they won’t make it to a meeting with their report or their homework won’t be completed or the power station shut down and half the city went black. But they won’t complain because they’ve been very carefully trained by Microsoft to consider this business as usual. It’s not any more unusual then a rain shower on a parade. But we know different, don’t we.
May 6th, 2007
By the same token, it would be wrong of Microsoft to write drivers for every possible hardware device on the market. However, it would be possible for them to offer “approved” hardware configurations which in a way would be what Apple does. The consumer could still add their own hardware to the system, at the risk of causing it to become unstable.
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you’re missing the point. it doesn’t work and xp did. vista is the problem period.