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 The study was originally made by Acadys and Microcost and gathered data from 1.2M machines belonging to about one thousand companies over a period of one month in seven different countries."

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[CanadianCrackPot]

What's ironic is that I need WinXP and Visual Stupidity^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Studio .NET for my computer animation class (homogenous testing and development environment blah blah). To ensure as few porting problems as possible I went to the Academic Alliance and got XP and VS.NET for free. Knowing about security I immeidately removed my network cable before the install (SP1a) and afterwards put Norton Internet Security on the machine.

So far so good. Then I had to disable the firewall to install SP2 and I was hit by 25 different worms in less than a minute. (I'm on a university network with uncleaned masses). I then smelled the good electrical smell as my box locked up.

Immediately powering down and opening up the case to inspect the hardware I found my primary hard drive was a smoldering piece of scrap metal. Which I took out to replace with the 10 gb drive from an old computer that was collecting dust (thank god my data drive wasn't touched).

So now here I am a day later with Mandrake only on my computer. I would like to thank MS for showing me where the far superior products are. (B0rk project 1 games ruined, b0rk 2 data drive fvcked over by XP, b0rk 3 hardware damaged, b0rk 4 not gonna happen).