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No,the patch didn't BSOD in February.
honeymonster 7th Mar 2010
It never BSODed.

Some PCs were infected by a rootkit. The
rootkit called into the kernel using absolute
addresses at system startup.

When the patch caused the kernel functions to
shift addresses, the rootkit jumped into the
middle of functions which caused it to BSOD.

It was the rootkit which BSODed, not
the patch and nor the Windows kernel.

If you need to bash Windows or Ed Bott, please
make sure to understand the issues first.
Otherwise you end up looking foolish.

Glad I could help you.
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