[mattknox]

I think it's harder to safely do changes to development machines, because the coupling between components is greater. If you want to change, eg., libxml or something like that, lots of processes that you don't know about might be effected, and all hell can break loose.

By contrast, I was generally nuking random userland processes, which no process (or user) would mourn or miss. I think that is a lot safer. There were cases where we would touch something important, like the CreateRemoteThread stuff, but that was a relatively small amount of our code, which rarely changed, and again, it had very little interction with anyone else's code.

It's also possible that we _did_ create a lot of havoc, but I didn't know. I think that's less likely because I think we would have noticed the loss of revenue, but it's possible.