Crashing through Windows
Posted on September 17, 2003
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[Bill] Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice daily. Put another way, this means that 10 percent of Windows machines crash every day, or any given machine will crash about three times a month.
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With 10 percent of them crashing daily, we have 70 million crashes every 24 hours.
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I think that when we put all the numbers together, we can estimate that there are a minimum of 30 billion Windows system crashes a year.
I’m just going to take a moment to brag about my Mac now: it last crashed… umm… well, I accidentally kicked the plug out of the powerbar a couple days ago…. Come to think of it my Win2K machine hasn’t crashed in months either. ‘Course it hasn’t been turned on in months either.
My guess is that it’s actually one guy out there somewhere who went ahead and manually tweaked his modem config file and now his machine is crashing and rebooting 57 078 times a minute, thus throwing off the curve for the rest of us.
Actually, Dvorak’s article has me wondering: are crash reports sent to Microsoft only on system failure or if an application crashes as well? Apps crash on my Mac every now and then but I rarely notice until I go to use it and it just isn’t running. In this case I like that silent failure.
I also like that my machine doesn’t want to phone home to the mothership every time a bit gets flipped the wrong way. As a strange man once said to a small child in a rural restaurant: “suck it up princess”.
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