Win XP can't be depended on

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Kerry said:
While I agree with all the other posts that XP is in general pretty
reliable I don't know how happy I would be if I was in an intensive
care unit and the equipment was running Windows XP.
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I wouldn't be happy at all personally. But I'd be unhappy with the equipment
provider or the hospital, not Microsoft. Their product does say, IIRC, that
it isn't suitable for that kind of use.

If people insist on driving cars into other cars at 150mph, sooner or later
you have to start blaming those people for their deaths, not the people who
make the tyres, brakes, or the seatbelt.
 
Robert said:
I wouldn't be happy at all personally. But I'd be unhappy with the
equipment provider or the hospital, not Microsoft. Their product does
say, IIRC, that it isn't suitable for that kind of use.

If people insist on driving cars into other cars at 150mph, sooner or
later you have to start blaming those people for their deaths, not
the people who make the tyres, brakes, or the seatbelt.
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I wasn't dissing Microsoft. Just stating that although I consider XP a very
reliable OS I don't think it's reliable enough to bet my life on it. The car
anology doesn't apply here. The driver has some control and in most cases is
part of the reason for a crash. A medical machine locking up because of a
bug or faulty driver or whatever is out of the patients hands :-)

My post was rhetorical in nature. I've never seen any critical medical
machines that run XP.

Kerry
 
Kerry said:
I wasn't dissing Microsoft. Just stating that although I consider XP
a very reliable OS I don't think it's reliable enough to bet my life
on it.
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I know you were not. I was agreeing, and pointing out that it isn't designed
to have a life bet on it.
The car anology doesn't apply here. The driver has some
control and in most cases is part of the reason for a crash. A
medical machine locking up because of a bug or faulty driver or
whatever is out of the patients hands :-)
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Yeah, I was thinking of a designer starting from such a bad base.
My post was rhetorical in nature. I've never seen any critical medical
machines that run XP.
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Nor me. Lets hope we keep that lucky streak going.
 
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