Admittedly the robustness (or lack thereof) of Microsoft's O/S really pisses
me off. What I don't understand is, with 20 billion in cash reserves, you
think MS could fund a 'crash reduction' initiative.
Having said that it is all too easy to target Microsoft for this. They have
~80% of the world's desktops. We are talking millions upon millions of every
variety of PC hardware you can possibly imagine. No other O/S comes remotely
close to being used a) in such a widely diverse hardware environment, and b)
as often, and c) with a such a wide variety of software applications.
We really have nothing to compare it to.
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Subject: Re: Microsoft on Windows NT reliability
>From: Gerald Oskoboiny <
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>I found this via someone's .sig on the hypermail mailing list:
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http://microsoft.com/ntworkstation/overview/Reliability/Highest.asp
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>> Highest Reliability
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>reminds me of this hilarious page:
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http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/rants/scalability.html
This page points out MS' site crashing frequently a couple of years
back, but now they're generally stable - even before the W2K problem
was released. How did they do it? I've seen articles and also have a
tale from a major company's sysads when doing some contract work for
them. They bought into the whole MS suite of products and found their
site crashing regularly. They had install recipes (NT 4, SP4, asp
hotfix, MS Site Server, MTS, SP5,....) that had to be followed in a
particular order. In addition to MS' own consultants giving this
"proven" recipe they also had them install it and all the company's
custom apps on a number of beefy Compaqs and use a load-balancer
(pretty sure it was this one, not surprisingly there's a fairly big
market for this type of product)
http://www.f5.com which determines
availability, load, etc. of machines and directs requests that way and
is the same technique MS supposedly used (perhaps changed with W2K
clustering) for themselves.
Oh, and this Fortune 500 insurance company merged with another
insurance company and there have been mass firings especially amongst
the managers and executives in the IT department. Perhaps that adage
"you can't get fired for recommending MS technologies" is gone.
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