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:2007-01-18
Of course Microsoft can make a server that can stay running for three contiguous months. Server 2003 is a pretty good server OS. I'm sure 2008 is a good one as well.
The reality is that Ubuntu and Apple servers aren't down enough for anybody to really notice. It's truly a pointless article.
Now if Ubuntu or Apple servers were down 25% or more this article would have some relevance since the end user might actually notice the down time.
Member since:2006-08-24
Netcraft "what's that site running" shows www.update.microsoft.com was rebooted one day ago. Average uptime is shown as 23days and max uptime of about 30 days
http://www.update.microsoft.com" rel="nofollow">http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.update.micro...
Does that mean W2K3 server can only run 23 days before a reboot?
The point here is that the article is without basis and creates its own standard of measurement before declaring victory. There is no way anybody can repeat the benchmark to confirm its findings.
Member since:2005-08-11
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2005-07-06
Yeah because Microsoft COULDN'T POSSIBLY make a good server OS that would stay up 100% of the time for 3 months?