Here is how fellow Avanut Wayne describes the “conversation” between Vista and you (the user) when an app. decides to kick the bucket. I particularly like the last one.
User: “This thing’s frozen.”
[Tries to close program using various keyboard and mouse actions.]U: “Yep, totally wasted.”
[Task Manager displays]U: “Kill this program.”
Computer: “Hey, uh, did you know that this program isn’t really responding? I think it might be frozen.”
U: “Uh, yeah. That’s kind of why I told you to kill it.”
C: “So, what do you want me to do about it?”
U: “Kill it already!”
C: “Wait, wait, I think its not responding…”
U: …
C: “Oh, ok, it stopped responding, lets figure out why.”
U: …
C: “Hmm, dunno. I’m going to tell daddy.”
[Uploads problem report to Microsoft.]