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Gates Provides Windows Crash Statistic

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fasten-seat-belts dept.

cybercuzco writes "In an otherwise innocuous article at they NYT (FRRYYY) Bill Gates says that according to error reporting software in windows, 5% of all windows installations crash two or more times every day. Gates goes on to state that Microsoft is looking at charging for some of its software updates that it now distributes for free."

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  1. Boy... by momerath2003 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If that's not a conservative estimate, call me a liberal.

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  2. I haven't read the article by agrippa_cash · · Score: 5, Funny

    I haven't read the article, but I assume that the Poster meant to type 95%. Its OK, we all make mistakes.

  3. Re:Cash for updates? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Billy is still taking lessons from the RIAA.

  4. 5% by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The other 95% of all Windows installations have the reporting feature disabled...

  5. Uhm.... sure. by wo1verin3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    >>Microsoft is looking at charging for some of
    >>its software updates that it now distributes
    >>for free."

    Buffer ovverflow - $15
    Firewall Fix - $45
    Service Pack 3 - $300
    Knowing that no matter how much patches come out, Linux will be more secure - Pricess

  6. Re:Hm. by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not a crash. It's...it's... a programmed REST BREAK.

  7. Re:WOW. by JavaTHut · · Score: 5, Funny
    5% may sound like a small amount, but considering HOW MANY Windows boxes exist on EARTH, that is a HUGE number...

    ... which is why we use a percentage

  8. The other 95% by eap · · Score: 5, Funny

    are still stuck at the "Windows was not shut down properly" screen.

  9. Re:skewed statistics. by The+Masked+Fruitcake · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're absolutely right. I've found that by not installing or running any software, I can dramatically improve the performance and stability of Windows.

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  10. *sigh* by tnak · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Knowing that no matter how much patches come out, Linux will be more secure - Pricess"

    Price[le]ss

    And that sums up the problem with Linux at this stage of the game: no matter what you want it to do, there seems to be one little piece that isn't there yet.

  11. Re:skewed statistics. by lurgyman · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and Windows barely crashes at all when I select "linux-2.6.0-test1" at the boot prompt :)

  12. Could be an advertisement for MSFT scalability by mdubinko · · Score: 5, Funny

    Think about it. 100 million Windows users. 5% is 5 mil. At 2 crashes a day, that's 10 million transactions. Daily. Not even counting all the less frequent crashers.

    That's 416,666 transactions per hour, 6944 transactions per minute, or about 116 transactions per second.

    If each report is 50K (don't have an exact figure, and I don't want to wait the .5 day to measure it), the throughput is 500 gigabytes per day, averaging 46.4 Megabits/second.

    *That's* the kind of data processing system I'd like to buy!
    -m

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