[Linux-aus] Windows: 30 billion crashes a year ?

[Chris Samuel]

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On Tuesday 16 Sep 2003 2:02 pm, Shane Stephens wrote:

> So 5% of machines crash twice daily.  How many machines crash every
> day?  Dunno.  How many machines crash at least once a month?  Dunno.
> What is the average number of crashes per machine per month?  Dunno.

Remember that these figures are (allegedly) derived from peoples XP systems 
phoning home to MS to say they've died.

Steven D'Aprano from CyberSource on the OSV list did a bit more maths, which 
I'lll ask him for permission to quote here.

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 Chris Samuel  :  http://csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC

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