[Dean C]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

I haven't had an operating system crash with Windows XP or Vista since 2004. And no the BSOD is not disabled. I've had programs eat all the resources in my PC (ahem Firefox) and cause processor lag but kill the process and it all evens out very quickly.

I have had crashes with Internet Explorer 6 and 7 under Windows XP. If you don't run them in their own process, they might take the operating system with them. But anyone who knows Windows will set them up so they run in their own processes.

Oh I'm not argueing with you on that one Wayne Windows XP can act like a total pain in the ass sometimes, and I generally format after a year because of the slowdown of gradually installing crap that clogs up system resources. Nevertheless, most blue screens are down to faulty drivers and defecting hardware. You'd have exactly the same consequence in linux, although I don't know how they handle bad drivers and hardware