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Originally Posted by impact
Some embedded stuff based on windows CE of sorts is fairly stable - there are a heap of strange devices that do hide the OS that are suprising based on Windows...
But having said that - hmmm... Ford now using Windows in their Sync product ? Not sure if I could trust driving down the highway and being distracted with a BSOD because I hit a bump in the road causing my mp3 to skip or whatever....
At first it was nervous knowing that Airbus was a fly by wire design - Im so glad that it does not use Microsoft, and there is no way I'd ever fly on a aircraft with an embedded operating system from Redmond...
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Seems The "impact" operating system would be a better solution for the airbus aye? I guess we make the assumption that MS "Strive" to make an unstable OS... Im pretty sure thats their business plan when they come up to End of Financial year... "So everyone, how are we going to develop an unstable OS this year?"
I think the Home Server is a cool idea. They are targetting Families and people who don't know how to build their own server or even know where to start with what a "real" server is for. Sure other companies will bring out versions of their own, but we all use MCE, when there is at least 5 other software versions out there of the same thing, but we all choose to use MCE for some strange reason...
I am pretty sure we all know this for fact when talking OS stability... Woo Unix is stable, but WHEN it crashes while in say Level 7 Mode... good luck if your data is still their after you spend 30minutes rebuilding the directory structure... If your MS system freezes up, you reboot and your back and running in under a minute with all your data still there.
Stability and Userfriendly don't go hand in hand... MS is robust and unstable, Unix is Stable but fragile... Sorry my choice is MS.