This midwit spent the day creating value for my customers instead of spinning in my chair creating value for my cardiologist.
Microsoft could provide adequate system facilities so that customers can purchase products that do the job without having the ability to crash the system this way. They choose not to make those investments. Their customers pay the price by choosing Microsoft. It's a shared responsibility between the parties involved, inclduing the customers that selected this solution.
We all make bad decisions like this, but until customers start standing up for themselves with respect to Microsoft, they are going to continue to have these problems, and society is going to continue to pay the price all around.
We can and should do better as an industry. Making excuses for Microsoft and their customers doesn't get us there.
This midwit believes a half decent Operating System kernel would have a change tracking system that can auto-roll back a change/update that impacts the boot process causing a BSOD. We see in Linux, multiple kernel boot options, fail safe etc. It is trivial to code at the kernel the introduction of driver / .sys tracking that can detect a failed boot and revert to the previous good config. A well designed kernel would have roll back, just like SQL.
This midwit spent the day creating value for my customers instead of spinning in my chair creating value for my cardiologist.
Microsoft could provide adequate system facilities so that customers can purchase products that do the job without having the ability to crash the system this way. They choose not to make those investments. Their customers pay the price by choosing Microsoft. It's a shared responsibility between the parties involved, inclduing the customers that selected this solution.
We all make bad decisions like this, but until customers start standing up for themselves with respect to Microsoft, they are going to continue to have these problems, and society is going to continue to pay the price all around.
We can and should do better as an industry. Making excuses for Microsoft and their customers doesn't get us there.