Microsoft® Disadvantages

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3rd party manufacturers write Kernel Level drivers for their hardware. The Kernel level stands between the hardware layer and the user layer. When a process goes awry in the user layer, NT generates an illegal operation error, and halts the process before it hurts anything. The blue screen represents a kernel STOP that indicates a system device driver or 3rd party driver is trying to access a privileged kernel area. Or it could mean you mixed up different kinds of RAM Simms, or that you installed a bad NIC or SCSI controller. If so, the offending hardware can be removed and it will clear things up.