For a server I can believe a long uptime for NT (maybe a month .... but not three years). It was the best OS M$ ever built. Its been downhill since.
For NT he would need to reboot for updates of the OS and for some updates of antivirus (e.g. change of scan engine). And we all know the unexplained slow down of the server that fixes itself after that reboot!. So three years is being extravagantly liberal with the truth.
On your own desktop/laptop it is impossible to keep from not rebooting under windows. Just getting rid of malware/spyware using tools like spybot needs reboots for the bad cases. You need to upgrade IE, you need to reboot, you upgrade your apps ... reboot. Its just so relaxing to come to office and resume from where you left off the day before (even over a weekend) for weeks on end.
Kiggs
On 19 Apr 2005, at 08:37, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote:
Kiggundu Mukasa said the following on 04/19/2005 07:04 AM:On 18 Apr 2005, at 19:33, Ronny wrote:1. No viruses1.Why do you love Linux/Unix more than windows yet we all access a Microsoft windows box a day?> 2. No malware/spyware > 3. No crashes (weeks of uptime!)
3 might be aguable with some MCSE i know - he says 2 of his WinNT boxes have been up for 3 years so far! (i find it hard to believe him though).
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