OSNews

After years of crashes, BSODs (Blue Screen of Death), Stop errors and dozens of other problems, Microsoft finally has delivered what most of us would think impossible from them: a rock stable operating system. Granted, Windows 2000 was a decent try, but it had its share of system crashes, even with the neatest possible installation. It was more susceptible to bad written device drivers than Windows XP, and that shows. Of course, it’s not like you can throw anything at XP and it will stay unharmed, drivers are a very important component of an operating system, and if they’re buggy they make the whole system unstable, whatever OS it is.

But you’ve got to hand it to Microsoft, this time they did it right. It only crashed twice on me (because of buggy display card drivers probably), and when certain applications crash, the rest of the OS doesn’t care, as a matter of fact I can re-launch the application again and keep working on it, something that is unthinkable under Windows 98, Me or Mac OS classic. And the few applications that crash are the same that crashed before in any earlier version of Windows, and as a matter of fact they crash a bit less in XP.

But as it couldn’t be any other way, not everybody’s happy with it. Let’s examine the pros and cons, and to be a bit original, I’ll start with the cons:

1. "Intro"
2. "Cons"
3. "Pros"
4. "More Pros"
5. "More Pros and Conclusion"