Sure, if by "done something similar," you mean "the exact opposite." Poland 'shopped a black guy out of the picture. Toronto 'shopped a black guy INTO the picture.

It doesn't work like that ANYWHERE else? Dude, have you even heard of Canada? I have a sneaking suspicion people from other countries are thinking the same thing, but I haven't lived in them my whole life, so I'll let those people speak for themselves.

Others have already pointed out that this is just spreading FUD. I haven't had the "Automatically restart" check box selected for 11 months. I haven't had a single BSOD. Yes, I used to have scads of them. XP has in fact gotten better. I'm no Microsoft apologist. I use XP when my employers make me, and so far, those decisions have made complete sense. At home, I don't use Windows (except in emulation, sometimes).