On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 05:32 pm, Jon Gabriel wrote:
From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Brin-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Windo$e Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:11:57 +0100
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/technology/25SOFT.html
" Mr. Gates acknowledged today that the company's error reporting service indicated that 5 percent of all Windows-based computers now crash more than twice each day."
Honestly, I suspect this is more ID10T errors than anything else.
But the user shouldn't be able to make the OS crash, however much of an ID10T they are.
My home computer running WinXP has crashed perhaps four times in the last 7-8 months, and I believe they were hardware related and not the operating system.
That's a *lot* of crashing.
Win2K was also totally crash free for the year and a half I used it.
Also?
By the way M$oft OS's do not have the patent on crashing. For over a month, I had a recurring problem with OSX where it would freeze on my G4 each time I tried to empty the trash.
Sure, every OS *can* crash sometimes. I've had Linux kernel panic on me, and Mac OS X has informed me it requires a restart once or twice per year per machine. "More than twice a day" is a quite different kind of thing altogether.
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