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[News] Microsoft is "Rushing" Vista Tests, Automates Reboots

A recipe for (yet another) disaster?

Rush Testing Is Under Way for Microsoft's New System

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| Microsoft rushed what may be the final test version of its Windows
| Vista operating system to more than a million testers on Friday, trying
| to meet deadlines for its long-delayed commercial release.
|
| [...]
|
| In the interview posted by Microsoft, Mr. Hallauer said Vista would have
| fewer dreaded "blue screens of death," in which the operating system 
| freezes and leaves the user with a blue display screen. Instead, Vista will 
| automatically recover from such freezes and start over, without forcing the 
| user to restart the system manually.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/technology/02soft.html?ex=1314849600&en=6f416e77d87d4bec&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Notice the deceptive use of words. By "fewer dreaded blue screens of death"
what he means to say is that the system would just die (reboot) without user
intervention, which is possibly worse (no verbosity for debugging or
diagnostics). Indeed, it is doing to be a Visaster (sic).

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