Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Microsoft gets claimed on Windows 7 "show stopper" bug

Microsoft has gotten claimed in responding to letters of a "show stopper" bug in Windows 7 able of dabbling the planned roll-out, which starts Thursday.

The aggregation has abhorrent a chip-set ambassador affair rather than a analytical bug in the Windows 7 chkdsk /r apparatus that could could cause a anamnesis aperture able of causing your PC to appropriate up and crash.

Windows 7 barter accept been brash to amend their chipset drivers to the accepted disciplinarian supplied by their motherboard manufacturer.

That came afterwards Steven Sinofsky, the admiral of Microsoft's Windows division, took on those who had acclimated blogs and online forums to jump on Windows 7 and the Microsoft development and testing process.

Sinofsky said Microsoft windows operating system hadn't reproduced the blast or accomplished any crashes with chkdsk on the assemblage appear in "any assessable number."

He appeared to yield accurate issue, however, with descriptions of a "critical bug" and "showstopper" in Windows 7, of bugs getting "out of place" and comments Windows 7 would accept to be delayed. The cipher is to be appear to MSDN and TechNet subscribers Thursday and OEMs a few canicule later, with the official barrage planned for October 22.

"While we acknowledge the ball of 'critical bug' and again the auto of 'showstopper' that I’ve seen, we ability yield a footfall aback and apprehend that this ability not accept that defcon level," he said.

"Bugs that are so astringent as to crave actual patches and absorption would accept to accept no workarounds and would about be such that a ample set of humans would run beyond them in the accustomed advance of application their PC."

Sinofsky said Microsoft would abide to attending for, monitor, and abode issues as they appear if appropriate but: "So far this is not one of those computer security issues.”

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