Talk:Dr. Watson (debugger)

Dehistic?
This page calls the tool dehistic. What the hell does that mean? I've searched the web and found no real references to this, and this page seems to be the only occurrence on Wikipedia.Methulah (talk) 13:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * It's not in the dictionary and it seems reasonable that the author meant to use the word diagnostic so I will change it. PurpleFlux (talk) 01:11, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Other name
This article call the file %Systemroot%\System32\Dwwin.exe as Microsoft Application Error Reporting (AER). If there's no objection I will add this bit to the article. R8Rooy 16:16, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

An interesting bit of trivia
Back in the Windows 3.1 days (when pcs were only a generation advanced on the old coal-powered mainframes), I remember a tech columnist once commenting that "Dr. Watson" was the most common computer virus, because it could be found running on every computer -- most computer users had no idea what it was supposed to do, & enabled it because they thought it would somehow help in ways other than catching debug info from a crashing application. (Well, I admit I thought so too, back when I knew far less about computers than I do now.) Any one else remember this bit of snark -- or even better, can source it for inclusion? -- llywrch 15:49, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Office diagnostics (2007)
Evidently it was known as "Customer Watson": http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178954.aspx#BKMK_WhatsRemoved 76.117.247.55 (talk) 21:49, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

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