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Gates Provides Windows Crash Statistic
cybercuzco writes "In an otherwise innocuous article at they NYT (FRRYYY) Bill Gates says that according to error reporting software in windows, 5% of all windows installations crash two or more times every day. Gates goes on to state that Microsoft is looking at charging for some of its software updates that it now distributes for free."


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new york times article...

btw... i dont find this statistics very convincing either  ;-)
 

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Re: Microsoft now wants to take charge for security updates/patches...
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2003, 08:52:29 PM »
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Some analysts have said that Longhorn may not arrive on the market until 2006.

I really hope that is true... Its stupid to pay big amounts of money to "upgrade" to a unfinished and buggy OS.