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The Errors of Our Ways: A brief history of error reports
- reagency 11y agoArticle should be title "The Ways of our Errors"
- Animats 11y agoA big breakthrough at Microsoft was when they applied a classifier system to sorting the error reports and automatically bringing similar ones together for analysis. That happened early in the Windows 7 era. The other big breakthrough in error handling at Microsoft was the Static Driver Verifier.[1] This is a formal proof of correctness system which analyzes kernel level driver source code to see if it does anything that can crash the kernel. All signed drivers have passed the Static Driver Verifier. Those two innovations made Windows 7 far more stable than previous releases. The Driver Verifier eliminated almost all crashes caused by drivers breaking the rest of the kernel. It also eliminated blaming third-party drivers for crashes that were not their fault. The automatic classification of error reports made it possible to deal with a huge volume of error reports without ignoring most of them. [1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff547247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff...
- gpvos 11y agoThe December 2013 Spiegel article about the NSA intercepting Windows Error reports to figure out how to break in to computers: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-nsa-uses-powerful-toolbox-in-effort-to-spy-on-global-networks-a-940969.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-nsa-uses-power... (page 2).
- chris_wot 11y agoNatalie Tran's error reporting video: http://youtu.be/nK0OWAXTSdM http://youtu.be/nK0OWAXTSdM