At the Vista launch in Romania Bill Gates claimed that Vista, with the right amount of administration could run a life support system:
Journalist: Let’s imagine a hospital where life support systems are running Vista. Would you trust it with your life?
Bill Gates: …Absolutely, Vista is the most secure operating system we’ve ever done, and if it’s administred properly, absolutely, it can be used to run a hospital or any kind of mission crytical thing.
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MacDailyNews Take: The Blue Screen of Actual Death.
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when do I get to put my transylvanian teeth into this vista :->)
LOL! Great take, MDN!
Isn’t Vista ON life support.
He’s dreaming again…..
Yeah, I would trust Vista if I were on life support…..trust Vista to kill me!
I’d rather die than have windows keeping me alive
This is just hilarious.
I wonder if Zune Tang would volunteer for the MIcrosoft Vista Respirator/Defibrilator/Dialisis Edition beta test.
Your potential, our grave.
Read the EULA. They specifically say not to use the software in certain critical environments. So which is it Bill?
Please Bill beta test the proposal yourself… please….
eat your own dog food
Blue screen of death… oh the joy!
If it wasn’t for Vista I would not have made it to Heaven 30 years early! Thank you Vista! Thank you Microsoft… if you are good at one thing it was to kill me… and didn’t even realize I was dead!
I dunno know….I’m a boob man myself
LOL! “The Blue Screen Of Actual Death”. 😀
jag
Yea… until you let the computer go to sleep…. good luck waking it up. Damn Vista will lock up completely if you let it go to sleep. We had to set out Vista test comp to never sleep for this reason. POS.
I can see it now, Vista Life edition – of course there ever amazing upgrade path will make you want Vista – Only half braindead edition, or the ultimate Vista – regain bodily function Platnium edition.
Hospital Speaker System: Code Blue in Intensive Care Room 512
Life Support System in Room 512: Windows Genuine Advantage has determined you do not have a valid license to run Windows, we are shutting down the system except for limited use of Internet Explorer.
Is he IMPLYING in retrospect that XP and NT were NOT the “mission critical” systems that he thought they should have been?
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,13987,00.html
Some of the posted comments are so good I’ll send them to my windows’ friends. For example those by Drunk Cheney, Sum Jung Gai (Korean for some…), G-ZUS (Some dude from ancient Rome or modern America), Micro Me and you have to be kidding are worth mentioning. Great effort guys.
Vista has detected that your body is not a trusted/protected device, and cannot resume Windows Live Life Support. This program will now exit.
or…
[on those annoying popup word bubble things] Vista has detected a new body! Click here to configure this device.
or how about this one…
Windows Live Life Support was not responding and was forced to close.
Please tell Microsoft about this problem!
Click the ‘Send’ button and you will be sent to the order form for your Microsoft will send you a Microsoft® Genuine™ Death Certificate (DC).
(BTW, it will cost $100 for the DC Basic, $150 for DC Premium, $249 for DC Business [for those accidents in the workplace], $399 for DC Ultimate, and $499 for the Limited Edition Autographed Ultimate.)
oh lord. I need to change the directives of my “power-of-attorney”. I sure as heck do not want my life in the hands of Microsoft. Let alone, Vista!
Gasp. Bush = Vista!
Well Microsoft’s life certainly depends on it.
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That’s horse jibberish
LOL, fun.
Can some one tell me
how do most computers for Medical critical situtions run can someone say.
Windows Yeah hos sad is this. I have told many ppl.
Would it not be all Firmware controled.
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From: OzzysCross101
LOL funny dude
Don’t hassle my spelling.
Like shitin’ strawberry short cakes Randy.
“She’s crashing! No wait, that’s just life support. Call IT, stat! Ok, now she’s crashing”
“Windows detects that program “Patient’s Life” was not authorized by Microsoft. Therefore, the circulatory, respiratory, and neurological programs have been shut down. We left the fingers and eyes so the patient could register properly next time.”
“Windows detects that program “Patient’s Life” has terminated unexpectedly. Abort, Retry, Fail?”
Magic word for the day: class. I see a class action lawsuit/malpractice lawsuit on the horizon if they implement this.
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer true. . . .