Linked by David Adams on Thu 17th Jul 2008 05:59 UTC, submitted by Caffeine Deprived
Microsoft's Windows beat operating system rivals Mac OS X and Ubuntu in a three-month test of update server uptime, according to Pingdom, a Swedish uptime monitoring company.
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Member since:2007-09-28
According to Pingdom, Microsoft's update servers were available to users 100 per cent of the time during the three-month stretch of April, May and June, with no apparent down time. Apple's update servers, meanwhile, were offline for 2 hours and 34 minutes during that period (99.9 per cent uptime) while the main repository of Ubuntu, one of the most popular consumer distributions of Linux, was dark for 1 day, 5 hours and 45 minutes (98.6 per cent uptime).
That's not really strange, as with Windows you actually require a good working update service because of the stability of the OS, this is less for Apple and even more so for Ubuntu (Linux).
The stats just prove it
That's not really strange, as with Windows you actually require a good working update service because of the stability of the OS, this is less for Apple and even more so for Ubuntu (Linux).
The stats just prove it
You all damn him, but you do not see the fine irony in his words. Of course Microsoft has to have a good working update service because of the stability of Windows... just realize if it is due to the GOOD or the BAD stability of any OS that it requires the update servers to be stadily available. ;-)
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2005-07-06
According to Pingdom, Microsoft's update servers were available to users 100 per cent of the time during the three-month stretch of April, May and June, with no apparent down time. Apple's update servers, meanwhile, were offline for 2 hours and 34 minutes during that period (99.9 per cent uptime) while the main repository of Ubuntu, one of the most popular consumer distributions of Linux, was dark for 1 day, 5 hours and 45 minutes (98.6 per cent uptime).
That's not really strange, as with Windows you actually require a good working update service because of the stability of the OS, this is less for Apple and even more so for Ubuntu (Linux).
The stats just prove it