Justin du Coeur (jducoeur) wrote,
Justin du Coeur
jducoeur

Still not quite getting it...

Pardon a brief rant.

I'm in the middle of catching up with back issues of Microsoft Watch, and I come across this little tidbit, talking about WinCE:
And, just as was the case with Windows, Microsoft has been discovering that many of the errors that crashed the operating system were attributable to third-party applications.
No. Errors that crash the operating system are bugs in the operating system. If the operating system lets third-party applications crash it, that's a bug...
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