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 The study was originally made by Acadys and Microcost and gathered data from 1.2M machines belonging to about one thousand companies over a period of one month in seven different countries."

Comments

It's french, what do you expect.

[Blitzenn]

It's a french article, what do you expect? WE all know you can't write stable code in a language like 'French'. I expect that a french version of windows would crash more often. Maybe if they learn to speak a real language, they will get better results.

_Let the facts speak for themselves!

(This should stir the pot, even if it is meant in good fun!)(No real offense meant here, just showing how you can interpret things in a fashion to beat up anyone you want to, BUT IT MUST BE MS's FAULT!)

B0rk CanadianCrackPots Box 3rd installment

[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).