Fast forward to 2014, and we have Exchange crashing the all system with a BSD on purpose as a final solution to recover from a I/O stuck situation: the Microsoft Exchange Replication service (MSExchangeRepl.exe) will detect those failure events and intentionally cause a bugcheck of Windows by terminating the wininit.exe process. [1]

In the article they say it's an improvement, I'm not 100% sure about it

[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/scottschnoll/archive/2011/04/13/e...