This morning, when I started my tablet (a "cold" start -- I did a full shutdown the night before because it (that would be Windows) was getting "strange" -- I'm sure you know what I mean), something crashed on startup. This really isn't unusual; something seems to go wrong almost every time I boot, but it isn't the same thing everytime, of course (again, I'm sure you know what I mean).
Well, I just needed to look something up, so, because the crashed program was still stuck on its splash screen, I simply told it to turn off when I was done. Since I was in a bit of a hurry, I left while it was still shutting down.
Apparently, it didn't... and it ran the battery all the way down until it had no choice but to crash hard.
(By the way, just about everytime I shut down, something or other -- different, of course -- seems to be hung up somehow, and I have to tap through all those silly "end now" dialogs just to turn the darned thing off, so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised).
This really fails both the software engineering and common sense tests. So there's obviously a stability problem here with these things crashing all the time (and I'm not running anything really esoteric, frankly -- McAfee AV (gee, why do I need that?), Konfabulator, Google Desktop Search). Perhaps a rebuild from scratch would fix this... or maybe not.
As far as common sense, when I say "shutdown," I mean it. I don't really care that this application or that is not responding -- the OS should just terminate them with extreme prejudice! Instead, the brain-dead thing lets the battery run all the way down and then has to resort to an emergency power-off in such a way that the some system settings did not get saved (most obvious to me was my screen orientation preference, but who knows what else).
What a mess. At least I got my recommended deep power cycle for the month... maybe it's a "feature."