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 The study was originally made by Acadys and Microcost and gathered data from 1.2M machines belonging to about one thousand companies over a period of one month in seven different countries."

Win 3.1

[Hawkeye477]

Now why didnt they do a study on Win 3.1? I mean that was the only good windows version! :)

3rd attempt

[paulhar]

I get about half way through starting my reply before Windows crashes on me caus

Is that bad?

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought it was just normal to reboot 35 times a day.

My Windows has never crashed

[deathcloset]

after all, no boot, no crash!

Yeah right

[lindsay felton]

Maybe if you don't keep your install patched, this might be true. But I've been running the same XP install for a year, and I reboot maybe once every couple of weeks. 12% of the time? I'm gonna call bullshit. Plus, they're french, so we know they're retarded anyway.

A feature!

[doktorstop]

It's a feature, not a bug! Rebooting 1)cleans up memory 2) makes you do something useful 3) makes you aquanted with the hardware 4) teaches you elementary computer skills

Re:Perhaps is the user base of those versions?

[strictfoo]

rutine - is that some Unix program or something?

[fooboy@mail /root]# rutine
bash: rutine: command not found
[fooboy@mail /root]# man rutine
No manual entry for rutine

RE: Perhaps is the user base of those versions?

[Anonymous Coward]

More reasons the data is skewed:

Many people leave their computers on all the time, and never turn them off. When a program eventually crashes, they reboot. Their computer might have been running for a week without problems, but that is one crash out of one, 100% failure.

Secondly, most windows users are not adept at fixing problems. They will have the same problem crash their machine over and over again and do nothing to fix it. This drives up the rate of failure.

Of course, all those RPC exploits and security holes make it even worse, so windows is pretty bad. But if you gave the average windows user some linux binaries to compile, they'd probably print them out on their bubblejet and take them to Future Shop for help.

Translation from French

[scotay]

My French is a little rusty, but this article claims that XP is a hamster and NT4 smelled of elderberry.

Just more proof...

[Frank of Earth]

... that the French don't know how to use computers.

In other news, 5% of the French that had to reboot their computer also surrendered to a local CompUSA.

Re:babelfish translation with usual mistakes

[Mephie]

During one month, 1 285 500 working scannés stations were near...

Whew! Thank God. I thought it was just my scannés stations.

Re:Perhaps is the user base of those versions?

[EpsCylonB]

MS are lucky they didn't include win98 in the test though.

Re:Perhaps is the user base of those versions?

[Scarblac]

Luser, trying to run a command you don't know as root.

what rubbish...

[JaJ_D]

...I'm using windows and it hasn't cra

Re:Biased

[McNihil]

What is a reboot? ;-) I have had 10 kernel panics the last 9 years, two that were induced because of my stoopid programming. And oh yeah I am running Linux both as a server and desktop machine with plenty of apps.

Try asking Eliza about it

[RedLaggedTeut]

[foobar@localhost /usr/bin]#./eliza "rutine"
Since when do you have this obsession with rutine ?
[foobar@localhost /usr/bin]#./spellcheck -c "rutine"
bad word "rutine"
Nearest replacement: "routine"
[foobar@localhost /usr/bin]#./man -psychic rutine
You might mean "uptime"
[foobar@localhost /usr/bin]#uptime

Re:Perhaps is the user base of those versions?

[mgv]

This is about rebooting. A crash is not the only time Windows forces you to reboot. You say you shut down daily - only Windows users would regard that as normal.

Not true - I'm a mac user, and I shut down alot. Every time I a finished at the laptop I shut down the lid. When I'm ready to work again I have to do a start up - I start by lifting the lid up.

Pretty much the same really.

Not.

Michael

Re:No way...

[ceeam]

I find it hard to believe Windows XP crashes 12% of the time

On the other hand I find it hard to believe that:
- 90+ percent of people really use MSIE
- People do program w/ C++ for living
- Voting results are indeed real

Well, that just tells that you and me are different from the general populace I suppose. :)

Reversed

[tgv]

As in 100% - 12%?

Re:Perhaps is the user base of those versions?

[tsa]

Since switching to Debian I've never had a crash either.

Hm. My Linux system (Slackware) crashes regularly. About once every 5 years.

Re:A bit too high..

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

Let's have some fun with a simulated SAT question!

Windows 2000 is to Windows XP as:

1. Win 3.1 is to Win 95
2. Win 95 is to Win 98
3. Win 98 is to ME
4. Jango Fett is to Boba Fett

Re:Perhaps is the user base of those versions?

[blazerw11]

About once every 5 years.

Re-installing because a new version of Slackware came out is not a crash! :^)

Re:Perhaps is the user base of those versions?

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you trying to say that his windows wouldn't need so many reboots if he turned it off every time he was done using it, so that it is always freshly booted every time he tries to use it?

Re:Perhaps is the user base of those versions?

[isomeme]

One would hope you could hit amontillado.unc.edu to find out.

Re:Mod parent way up Up UP!

[glitch23]

My g/f says I have terrible up time...I mean....nevermind.