August 27, 2005
30 Billion Windows OS Crashes a Year
John C. Dvorak used Bill Gates' own data to calculate that Windows crashes 30 billion times a year. Can you imagine what the equals in lost productivity?Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice daily. Put another way, this means that 10 percent of Windows machines crash every day, or any given machine will crash about three times a month. Since Bill is a math junkie, I have to assume this number is real and based on something other than a phone survey. Those reports seem like the obvious source.
