Windows President Tries to Calm Fears of Win 7 Critical Bug

From PC World: Microsoft's Windows Division president Steven Sinofsky tried Wednesday to tamp down a growing roar that Windows 7 RTM has a critical flaw that can shut down the OS by running a simple command.

"Sorry to get dragged into this," wrote Sinofsky, taking the unusual step of responding via the comments section of an industry blog called Chris123NT's blog. Monday, the blog posted a recipe to execute the crash and included a picture of the results.

"Of course [we] always want to investigate each and every report of any unexpected behavior," he wrote [Microsoft confirmed it was indeed him]. But Sinofsky, who is leading Windows 7 development, said Microsoft has not reproduced the crash, which is triggered by the Windows "CHKDSK /r" command.

"We are certainly going to continue to look for, monitor, and address issues as they arise if required. So far this is not one of those issues," he wrote. "While we appreciate the drama of 'critical bug' and then the pickup of 'showstopper' that I've seen, we might take a step back and realize that this might not have that defcon level," Sinofsky wrote.

"Bugs that are so severe as to require immediate patches and attention would have to have no workarounds and would generally be such that a large set of people would run across them in the normal course of using their PC."

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