Windows Fails 8% of the Time

descubes writes "A Journal du Net article reports that about 8% of Windows sessions require a machine reboot. The relevant quote (translated from french) is: "The average rate of failures requiring a system reboot has been measured at around 8% per session. This number varies widely depending on the version of Windows. Windows 2000 has a failure rate of 4%, and NT4 is at 3%, whereas Windows XP is close to 12%." The study was originally made by Acadys and Microcost and gathered data from 1.2M machines belonging to about one thousand companies over a period of one month in seven different countries."

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Re:Perhaps is the user base of those versions?

[jwcorder]

Actually they were home users, who happen to show up for work. So basically you are taking the people who don't know how to use a computer and giving them a computer in a corporate environment.

Now if they survey 1,000 IT depts and asked them how many failures they had just in their department, I bet it would be lower. I have never had an XP machine fail so bad that I had to reboot. Well, except when I removed SP2 and it failed AFTER rebooting.

But that's what I get for uninstalling instead of reformatting.

Of course I also know how to go into task manager and kill individual processes too. That may be too complicated, not sure....

Re:Perhaps is the user base of those versions?

[mrchaotica]

doesn't mean I can stop people from installing comet cursor and whateverthehell else.

Are you an IT admin? If so, you're incompetant. Do your company a favor and get yourself a McJob instead.