According to this article, if you have a fast computer (ie, 933 Mhz or above), and you run Windows ME or maybe 98, you might experience data loss when shutting down. Apparently, the OS doesn’t have time to save the contents of the cache on the ATA100 large capacity drive before the system shuts off. I wonder if this has something to do with MSWME being the shittiest OS ever made. I dunno, though. What’s worse is that the vendor of the offending machines ‘asks not to be named.’ Great. There’s a company that cares about its customers. And Microsoft insists that it’s a hardware problem, not an OS problem. It seems like no one can take responsibility for their crappy products nowadays:
‘… not specific to any operating system but has to do with larger hard drive caches in combination with fast processors,” says Greg Sullivan, lead product manager of Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition.
Microsoft on Thursday sent patches for both Windows 98 SE and Windows Me to vendors with systems at 933 MHz and higher.
While insisting the problem was not related to any specific OS, Microsoft acknowledges systems running Windows 2000 are not affected because that OS has a different shutdown architecture.’
So.. it’s not an OS problem, but you’re fixing it with an OS patch. Riiiight. If Apple pulled this kind of stunt, they’d be burned at the stake. Microsoft does shit every fucking day.
