Let's talk about Windows Vista

Not sure if this is accurate, but I remember a discussion in my Operating Systems class (last year) about how Vista was supposed to handle drivers differently. Whereas XP will throw up a BSOD if a driver fails, Vista is supposed to actually catch the error and keep it from bringing down the entire system. Anyone know if this is true? And aside from the UI, has anyone actually tried using Vista casually?

How ya doing, buddy?

That's because when a bootloader is installed it overwrites the previous one, since they're all written to the master boot record of the hard-drive. Whereas Linux's bootloaders (GRUB/LILO) have separate installers that you can run on your own, I don't know of a program that installs the Windows bootloader other than an actual Windows install. What's even more annoying is that I can't figure out how to get it to go away when you've only got one Windows install (after previously having two) so that it'll just boot straight into Windows and not ask you to pick. Last time I messed with the boot.ini it created a whole mess of problems, so I don't dare touch that.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

OS X has Classic and it still draws classic program windows with the OS 9 look. Theoretically, MS could do something similar while they push people to upgrade their software. Then again, there are businesses that have to buy emulators of their old computers because it isn't "cost effective" for them to upgrade.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.