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Message-ID: <acdc033d0510030954x30f7013dj4881294034df08bd@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon Oct  3 17:54:52 2005
From: michealespinola at gmail.com (Micheal Espinola Jr)
Subject: Bigger burger roll needed

err, But Steve's conclusion is consistent with my own...

On 10/3/05, Micheal Espinola Jr <michealespinola@...il.com> wrote:
> Bruce, I don't think you are going to find hard "evidence" for either
> conclusion.  But Bruce's conclusion is consistent with my own
> experiences, and that of many other Administrators that I discuss
> issues like this with.
>
> Since its inception, supporting NT 3.0 beta and onward, I have been
> dealing with BSOD's.  In total, there have been comparatively very few
> times were it was a direct fault of MS code.  It has very commonly
> been in relation to 3rd party drivers that needed reworking or
> updating by the 3rd-party manufacturer.
>
> This is not PR spin (of which I don't think you could find any
> published PR spin for either side of this argument either).  This is
> real world experience with the NT+ products across i386 and Alpha
> hardware platforms using peripheral devices from many different major
> manufactures.  There are admins on both sides of the anti-MS fence
> that I communicate with that would agree with this conclusion.
>
>
>
> On 10/3/05, Bruce Ediger <eballen1@...st.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Steve Friedl wrote:
> >
> > > The majority of BSODs are caused by buggy third-party drivers and malware
> > > (rootkits, etc.) Is that part of "Microsoft's monopolistic abuse"?
> >
> > Does any kind of evidence (apart from PR-flack-based spin) exist for this
> > conclusion?
> >
> > Can you point me to it?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Bruce Ediger
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