True. The BSOD bloggers love to write about, for instance, was mainly caused by faulty hardware or defective third-party drivers. The OS, conservatively, entere

True. The BSOD bloggers love to write about, for instance, was mainly caused by faulty hardware or defective third-party drivers. The OS, conservatively, entered panic mode to prevent damage to data. Somehow it seems acceptable for a Unix kernel to panic on such conditions but when it happens to a machine running Windows, that must be because Micro$oft programmers are so stoopid...