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Old December 28th 17, 10:34 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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T wrote:

Hi Ken and Rene,

This the only place I find anyone who thinks Windows
is stable.

If you guys are not being tech evangelists (fan boys) and
are actually being honest, it is a good thing that your experience
if different than mine. Means there is hope for Windows.

Also keep in mind that I only get called when things go
wrong. And, glossing over quality issues in Windows
does not serve my customers well.

Rather than smothering my customers with M$ marketing bull
s***, I try to coach folks in the direction as to what will
make Windows more stable. Actually shutting the damned
thing off at night is a good start.

Since I do not charge for five minute calls, when I
show up at a bizarre Windows 8+ problem and
simply pull the power plug and turn off Fast Boot,
I do take it in the shorts. I do not bill for travel
time and do not have a minimum charge. Hopefully
they have other things that need fixing too, but quite
often not.

I make a good living off of Windows poor quality,
except for fast boot.

-T


I can give an example of a chronic bad performer.

I think it was WinNT on some lab machines, that used
to crash pretty precisely, after a month of uptime.
(It was like some kind of counter was overflowing, the
bug was known, it wasn't my job to patch the machines :-)
It was kind of a running joke, because these machines
were not maintained by the IT department, and nobody
seemed to be responsible.)

I can't find any details online to provide more color
than that.

And of course, there were bad designs. The "old days"
had all sorts of daft ideas, such as "cooperative multitasking".
Which is just asking for trouble (expect crap like that to
lock up once a day). Both Windows and Mac had such beasts.

Windows 98, the networking stack was blocking, and there
were certain network operations, that if an answer didn't
come back, the OS would seem to freeze. Well, that's not
a very good design (and the company that wrote the networking
stack probably knows why).

There aren't a lot of excuses left now. Everybody copies
everybody else. We use preemptive multitasking, which
does a lot to harden the kernel against Ring3 shenanigans.
Windows still has Paged and UnPaged pool as far as I know,
and that might be considered a weakness. Along with the
current fascination with making Task Manager "gutless".
WinXP Task Manager is the last one that was deserving
of the name "Task Manager". The current one is merely
"Process Status" and couldn't beat it's way out of a
wet paper bag in an emergency.

Paul
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