NY Times: Broken Windows Theory

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 21, 1999

Thanks to Kevin Collins
for this link.

No Linux content but a droll dissection of the 49-day crash
cycle for Windows.

“Forget about Y2K. This is serious. Microsoft now acknowledges
the existence of a bug in tens of millions of copies of Windows 95
and Windows 98 that will cause your computer to “stop responding
(hang)” — you know, what you call crash — after exactly 49 days,
17 hours, 2 minutes and 47.296 seconds of continuous operation.

The reason you didn’t notice this bug yourself is that you’ve
never kept your PC running that long without crashing for one of a
thousand other reasons.”


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Web Webster

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