An official slightly off topic anouncement

[Glenn Ervin]

Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
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> I beg to differ on the issue of XP rarely crashing.  Back when I ran
> XP it would die at least 3 times a week.  And with XP you don't get a
> BSOD. It just reboots for no apparent reason before you ever know
> there's anything wrong.  So you can forget coming out of the blue
> screen, saving your work and rebooting.  It just doesn't happen.  And
> yes I did have all the latest antivirus and antispyware stuff and boy
> did it hog system resources.  Not to mention the fact that JAWS
> brought what was at that time a fairly high-end system to a slow
> crawl after only a few hours of use.  Yeah, I saw the propaganda on
> TV about XP being more stable than 95/98/me, but I guess stability is
> relative, since 3 to 5 crashes a week is technically more stable than
> 2 to 3 crashes a day.
>
> Lorenzo

I guess it's how one uses it, as I have rarely experienced crashes with XP.
It may also have to do with the system it's on, and how often one runs 
scans.
Glenn

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