Linked by David Adams on Thu 17th Jul 2008 05:59 UTC, submitted by Caffeine Deprived
Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 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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RE[3]: Wow...
by ashyanbhog on Thu 17th Jul 2008 14:30 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Wow..."
ashyanbhog
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.

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RE[4]: Wow...
by BluenoseJake on Thu 17th Jul 2008 14:56 in reply to "RE[3]: Wow..."
BluenoseJake Member since:
2005-08-11

I'm sure Windows update runs on more than just one server, that was the report from the particular box (out of many) that netcraft got sent to.

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RE[4]: Wow...
by helf on Thu 17th Jul 2008 15:19 in reply to "RE[3]: Wow..."
helf Member since:
2005-07-06

Uptime measurement is pointless.

Having vast uptimes means one of two things.

1. You are an idiot that never updates.
2. You are running a cluster so you just migrate processes around and reboot servers as needed.

uptime scores = penis size

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RE[5]: Wow...
by iserlohn on Fri 18th Jul 2008 14:52 in reply to "RE[4]: Wow..."
iserlohn Member since:
2006-02-24

If only there were operating systems that can update most portions of the OS and applications without a full reboot of the system... hum...

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