full-disclosure - CyberInsecurity: The cost of Monopoly

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Message-ID: <3F79B786.8576.51B4609@localhost>
From: mike at prismnet.com (Mike Griffin)
Subject: CyberInsecurity: The cost of Monopoly

On 30 Sep 2003 at 14:27, Cael Abal wrote:

> "We counted the number of application and operating systems failures and 
> found that Windows XP Professional ran over 30 times as long without 
> encountering problems as those systems running Windows 98 SE."
> 
> http://microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/whyupgrade/reliability.asp
> 
> Err, congratulations?
> 
> C
> 
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What I liked about that page was that they stated Win2k was included 
in this test but gave no results. Basically they couldn't find a way 
to push XP with 2000 in the loop.