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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. Charging for updates .... by taniwha · · Score: 5, Interesting

    doesn't that give MS an incentive to leave bugs in?

  2. Re:skewed statistics. by JanneM · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The numbers they quote are system crashes, not application crashes. An operating system that allows a user-level app to cause a system crash is poorly designed. It doesn't matter if the fault originated in the OS itself or not.

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  3. Re:Crashing PCs by falcon5768 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    See thats what I dont get about people flaming apple for expensive machines, Im a IT tech for my schoolsystem and constantly I get the go with PC's they are cheaper line, yet in comparison to our iMacs in the elementary and middle schools (mixture of both old and new ones) the computers we fix the most are our budget line Dells of which there are about 200 in comparison to almost 900 macs.

    And those Macs are running on adverage 24 hours a day whereas the PC's are shutdown every night since they seem to crash less than when we did leave them on everyday.

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