Interview Questions

[ashwinv]

Hi
I've got an interview on saturday, need some info ont he following:
What happens when a computer crashes
What briefly has happened in the Microsoft Law Suit
Some info on 3G
Anything else relevant.

Cheers
Ash

[ej0c]

Hmmm.

Well, any number of things could have happened when a computer crashes...

But in general, you have a list of instructions that the processor is trying to complete...and it doesn't. It could be stuck in a circle - infinite loop.

When this happens inside a program, you can often halt the program (CTRL-ALT-DEL on a windows machine) and get the processor back on track running the operating system.

But not always. When the OS gets stuck, you are officially crashed, with no where else to tun but the power switch (or in the case of the HP here, the plug in the wall).

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Microsoft was accused of several things, including: 1) unfair competition by "bundling" Internet explorer with Windows and making it difficult to remove 2) Bullying hardware manufacturers into placing IE alone, when they would rather have made Netscape the dominant browser.

The court was taken as much by Microsoft's behavior after the lawsuit as before. They just thought that microsoft never did see itself as subject to any aws of the type, and that led to the court's desire to break up the company: one division for Windows, another for applications.

They worked it out just this week; you should be able to find summaries of the process on Yahoo news, or CNN, etc.

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3G and anything else relevant I leave to others.

[ej0c]

Hmmm.

Well, any number of things could have happened when a computer crashes...

But in general, you have a list of instructions that the processor is trying to complete...and it doesn't. It could be stuck in a circle - infinite loop.

When this happens inside a program, you can often halt the program (CTRL-ALT-DEL on a windows machine) and get the processor back on track running the operating system.

But not always. When the OS gets stuck, you are officially crashed, with no where else to tun but the power switch (or in the case of the HP here, the plug in the wall).

----

Microsoft was accused of several things, including: 1) unfair competition by "bundling" Internet explorer with Windows and making it difficult to remove 2) Bullying hardware manufacturers into placing IE alone, when they would rather have made Netscape the dominant browser.

The court was taken as much by Microsoft's behavior after the lawsuit as before. They just thought that microsoft never did see itself as subject to any laws of the type, and that led to the court's desire to break up the company: one division for Windows, another for applications.

They worked it out just this week; you should be able to find summaries of the process on Yahoo news, or CNN, etc.

---
3G and anything else relevant I leave to others.