Re: XP is garbage

I read in sci.electronics.design that Frank Bemelman <f.bemelmanq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote (in <425b8934$0$141$e4fe514c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) about 'XP is garbage', on Tue, 12 Apr 2005:
99.9% compatible. That is exactly the problem. Software running on our machines is 99.9% compatible with the OS. Tasks within the the OS are 99.9% compatible with each other. Drivers are 99.9% compatible with the hardware. The alternative browser that is 99.9% compatible, the PDF reader that is 99.9% compatible. In short, you have a 99.9% reliable machine.

If you have six things that are each 99.9% compatible, the overall compatibility is 99.4%. If incompatibility = crash, then you have a 99.4% reliable machine. But the number of potentially-fatal incompatibilities is probably much larger. For 100, the overall figure is 90.48%
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