andy1976uk wrote:
Software that contains lots of bugs in all the wrong places.
HERES ONE!! !! Windows "VM" garbage! UNIX has been doing VM right before BG even THOUGHT about creating a company, yet MS still doesn't seem to even understand the CONCEPT! REGARDLESS, Windows requires it and depends on it! The result? Even the BEST windows software may crash. In fact, following M/S dictates it *****MUST***** crash! M/S actually recommends it!
The UNIX answer is to dissallow the request in UNIX. M/S ALLOWS the impossible request in WINDOWS, and either aborts that or another request. UNIX standards dictate a graceful downgrade(such as failure to open a new window with an OOM error. M/S standards dictate an abrupt abort with an "assertion error"! Sometimes their buggy software doesn't even allow that. The result is lost data, corrupted files, memory leaks, reboots, and FRUSTRATION!
Steve