> From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 11:56 pm, Russell Chapman wrote: > > > William T Goodall wrote: > > > >> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/technology/25SOFT.html > >> > >> " 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." > >> > > We have some staff here who get this sort of reliability some times, > > sometimes just working in MS Word and MS Outlook. The first thing they > > do is stop sending the error reports to MS, so I suspect that the > > numbers are actually much worse. We used to try to troubleshoot the > > errors, but now it's quicker to just reimage the machine and wait for
> > it to start happening again in a few months. > > On my own machines, I've only ever experienced it running older > > software designed for Win95/98. Pretty much everyone concedes that MS > > is getting better... > > 'Getting better' from a long way behind then... No, windows NT was always that way. People are just using NT descended code more now. NT never crashes. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
