Microsoft - Better Than Apple and Ubuntu!?!

Published by: Codrut Nistor, in News

July12th2008


Today, another episode in the eternal Microsoft vs Apple vs Linux unfolds, and this time, it seems the Redmond giant is winning. As usual, the results coming from different sources could be anything else but the truth, so don't worry - Microsoft's products are not better than Apple's, and they are not kicking the penguin around, either. This is all about statistics, research, and the results of a study conducted by a certain Web monitoring firm, but it is worth being mentioned, and here's why...


According to Pingdom, the Windows Update site was up and running 100% of the time, in the second quarter of this year, while Apple's Software Update had a 99.9% uptime, with Ubuntu falling on the third place, with "only" 98.64%. OK, these are the percentages, but what about measured downtime?


For the three-month period considered in the study, the Apple Software Update was down for 2 hours and 34 minutes, while Ubuntu didn't respond for a full day, 5 hours, and 45 minutes.

Just as a side note, I guess Apple would have got the same score as Microsoft, if the iPhone 3G wouldn't have started the online madness which caused the servers to go down... as for the Linux competitor, I think the release of Ubuntu 8.04 had its contribution in the large downtime measured.

If only overall system reliability could be the same as the one of the software update service...we would surely have a completely different OS landscape, don't you think? :)

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2 Comments on Microsoft - Better Than Apple and Ubuntu!?!

  • On 07/13/2008 at 6:55 pm Pietro said:

    Just because its up doesn't mean you get your update. Many a time I have had to go the though the long process of updating only to have it fail, About 29% of the time I had to start all over again with Microsoft. I have never had Apple Software update fail.

  • On 07/13/2008 at 9:39 pm KodrutZ said:

    You are absolutely right with that, but I guess "Pingdom" should say it all - they are only about pinging some servers, and nothing more! :)

    ...regarding Ubuntu, they also didn't take into account the fact that, when the main server is down, many mirrors are working like a charm. Even more, with Ubuntu, you can get updates from the closest server to your location - think about updating at 50Mbps!(I did that!)

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