[url=http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=649&alloc_id=1487&site_id=1&request_id=6071695]Slashdot[/url] is all over this. This figure only includes the newer operating systems as the older ones didn’t have error reporting. Considering this is bound to be a conservative number, the actual one must be quite a bit higher. Also, this statistic is highly skewed because most people don’t send the crash report to Microsoft.
[quote]Mr. Gates acknowledged today that the company’s error reporting service indicated that 5 percent of all Windows-based computers now crash more than twice each day.
>>[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/technology/25SOFT.html]NYTimes: Microsoft Moves to Weather Time of Slow Growth[/url]
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