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To: rudedog who wrote (27722)	2/14/2000 3:20:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (2) of 64865

Just because you haven't seen it happen on NT doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. I was merely pointing out the obvious to Steve Lee in his post about all the "problems" (excuses) MSFT has with 3rd party suppliers of software. If your O/S crashes because of a 3rd party driver, it's your problem. If M$FT can't certify & test 3rd party drivers ahead of time, it's their problem. If they certify & test 3rd party drivers and they still cause significant O/S crashes, they don't know how to test driver software. Yeah, anything can happen in development, and does. But, if you're ready for prime-time, the customer doesn't suffer for it. SUNW has had it's problems w/ Solaris (2.2 comes to mind). The customers had to be the guinea pigs and helped with the debugging. Since 2.4, however, it's been extremely stable and reliable. No, I've never seen an application crash Solaris.

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