Still beats BSOD which kills the driver, the game and everything else... Guess the next level of 'self healing' could be the driver killing the game if it does something wrong. Of course a well written driver should not crash if not used properly, but either ignore the call and/or return an error, possibly crashing the game if it doesn't handle the error properly, which also resolves the problem ;) The end goal being that the nefarious software (be it the driver, the game, ...) gets killed (and possibly restarted in a correct state) without bringing down anything else. But again, buggy app or game bringing down a driver is already an improvement to it bringing down the entire system.

Much as I hate to admit it, I was quite impressed when I installed Win7 beta, and shortly thereafter the screens flashed black and then went back to the normal desktop and a balloon popped up saying: Windows detected an instability in the NVidia video drivers and has restarted them. At first I was pissed at NVidia, but hey, it's a beta system with beta drivers. Then I was really impressed with MS for handling this so gracefully rather than a bsod. So I think we're getting there with driver isolation and restarts, even in commercial OSes.

No they haven't.... The french have only heard of 'peritel'
Fortunately it's the same connector, it's just the french being the french had to come up with their own name for it ;-)

Well, I suppose maybe I'm gettin' old, or at least old-fashioned, and probably (mis)formed by years of working how the 'system' told me I was supposed to work, but...
I want folders! I do exactly the opposite of what you describe. I file my files and e-mails in (for me) logical hierarchies of directories (that what we called them folders when you were still wearing diapers, boy). I hate 'my documents', because it doesn't show me where it fits in the hierarchy (which disk, which sub-dir etc..). I have work, private and archive pst files in Outlook, each with folders per topic or project and I (usually) know where to look for a particular e-mail. And I've never understood the desire to put everything in one 'Explorer' which changes columns depending on what you're looking at, or 'unified search engines' (No Google Desktop or WDS for me!). If I'm looking for an e-mail I'll go to the relevant Outlook folder, and occasionally search for it (Outlook has the relevant fields for finding e-mails). If I'm looking for a file, I'll go to the relevant directory, or if need be, use find or Windows search, which have the relevant fields for finding files. Makes sense to me...

Now get of my lawn with your newfangled search-don't-file ideas!