Comment Let's do some calculations... (Score 1) 984
Bill claims 600 million customers.
Let's assume 5% of that number crash more than twice daily (even though many may be on earlier versions without crash reporting, as noted many don't report crashes, either.).
That's 30 million machines crashing at least 3 times a day.
Assume windows takes 1 minute to reboot after crash (now THAT's generous)... 30M x 3 x 1min = 90M minutes, or 171.12 YEARS of reboot time every day. That is staggering.
Now let's look at the R&D number: $6.9B. 280M people in the USA....
....roughly $25 spent for every man, woman, and child in the USA.
And the best they can do is XP?
My head hurts just thinking about it.
Let's assume 5% of that number crash more than twice daily (even though many may be on earlier versions without crash reporting, as noted many don't report crashes, either.).
That's 30 million machines crashing at least 3 times a day.
Assume windows takes 1 minute to reboot after crash (now THAT's generous)... 30M x 3 x 1min = 90M minutes, or 171.12 YEARS of reboot time every day. That is staggering.
Now let's look at the R&D number: $6.9B. 280M people in the USA....
And the best they can do is XP?
My head hurts just thinking about it.
