'Ubuntu takes on XP in the gadget arena'

[Martijn van de Streek]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Jonathan Jesse wrote:

> I'll post to the contrary on this with specific numbers.  I work for a
> company that has about 50 PCs (note: I know not as big as the one you work
> for) but we haven't seen one blue screen on any of these Windows XP
> service pack 2 boxes.  In fact I haven't seen a blue screen since Windows
> 2000 Professional.  The only time I saw a blue screen on a server product
> (2000 or 2003) was when we had hardware problems.

I ride the bus to work (and back) every day, and a few months ago the bus
company installed TFT screens with 'travel info'.

They crash more than they work (about 1% of buses I take have a working
screen, the others have blue screens, plain hangs, or 'illegal operation'
dialogs that appear to come from very basic Windows services..)

(though the consultants who sold them this will be getting rich off the
support contract, I guess)

Martijn
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