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Serious question, as I haven't used Windows in years: How reliable are these things (the current generation of Surface)? On an aircraft, a BSOD could have a lit

• Encosia 13y ago
  Just my n=1, but I think I've only had one BSOD since Windows 7 came out (and literally none running Vista, before that, for what it's worth). I have a Surface RT and Pro also, and neither of those have ever crashed. I saw a screenshot of the new Windows 8 BSOD somewhere a while back, but I've never seen it myself even though I run it on several devices.
• drivebyacct2 13y ago
  I've never, ever had a BSOD on Windows 7 or greater. I've only witnessed one and it was on an old (physically) dying laptop.
• ps4fanboy 13y ago
  my ipad crashes more than my windows desktop
• dangrossman 13y ago
  Windows itself virtually never crashes. The only thing that'll cause a 2005+ system to crash is hardware failure, or a hardware driver failure/bug. I have a 2010 laptop I use daily that's not once BSOD'd. My Surface Pro has never BSOD'd. My older desktop has, but the message has always been related to the graphics driver, and I sometimes have to reseat the card to get it to boot, so it's probably a physical world problem.
  • MichaelGG 13y ago
    And in fact, with Vista/7 they changed the way the graphic drivers work. I've had my GPU card crash several times, and all I got was a blank screen for a few seconds, followed by a notice that the video driver died and restarted. Sometimes it might flip into "basic" mode after that. Before, such a problem would have been a BSOD.