Microsoft: "half of all crashes in Windows are caused not by Microsoft code"

[Jon P. Inghram]

Another wonderous modern PC idea... instead of packing the thousands of models, textures, or whatever your game or other piece of software needs needs to run into a easily managed mildly compressed data file, leave them all seperate so that the file system has to has to figure out what to do with 'em. That way you can burn up HD space with file system overhead, and watch as the files slowly creep around the physical structure of the HD every time you defrag.

[Zao]

Only 90k files?
Last time I did an antivirus scan, I had 700k files spread over 360 GB.

[Kruzin]

I can say with little doubt that half of the other half (25%) of the crashes encountered in windows are from my moronic boss, the fact that he refuses to give up his old DOS apps, and his continuing disbelief in virus protection measures.
He continues to run some ancient DOS menu system, along with word perfect for DOS under various versions of windows, up to XP on no less than 5 systems he reserves for his own use.
Every time he asks me why these systems are locked up AGAIN, I tell him it's because he's running this old crap software, he refuses to believe me, and insists I fix it. This happens almost daily.
And this is the same boss who thinks that every time NAV pops up a warning that he has been infected, he thinks it's just a spam from Symantec, and it doesn't mean anything.
The same boss that continually disables NAV whenever he sees a warning, or on Monday mornings when he sees the report from the weekly scan I scheduled.
The same boss that can't understand why our network was taken down by the msblast virus for 1.5 days, and the only systems I found infected where his.

Bottom line....the other 1/2 of all system crashes are caused by clueless idiots who have no idea how stuff really works.

(can you tell how much I just love my genius boss? )

[Jon P. Inghram]

The "install every web-install popup you see" type people are the greatest. I know this guy who's XP system, even though it was running with at least 512 megs of ram and at least a 2 GHz CPU, still crawled slowly on virtually everything. Turned out the system was clear full of viruses and spyware. Downloading and running a free virus checker and AdAware likely amounted to genocide... the virus population had probably evolved to near sentience.

[Kruzin]

Yea...Stupidboss does that too.
In the last 2 weeks, I have had Ad Aware remove no less than 60 spyware apps and keys from his main rig...

[Technoid]

Wombat:

[leech]

I'll second that one, Technoid! Wombat has it right. Easily read configs (even gconfig, which for some reason the gnome programmers like to compare to the windows Registry, is quite readable) would be nice.

Leech