Re: Drivers crashing the OS
Printing is an archaic process, so likely one of the things that is still tied in with a bunch of legacy code that really shouldn't be where it is at all., or even there at all.
Windows will only ever improve if MS did a ground up re-write, but I can't see that happening at all and would require a complete drop of any backwards compatibility other than emulation. I would guess the resulting OS might actually be quite reasonable, stable and secure (untill the users started demanding stuff to do stuff that bloated and broke stuff).
Probably the most modern (recently written) widely used personal OS is MacOSX and even that has its issues.
Though I guess there may be more knowledgable people here than me.