A company that measures internet service reliability has given Microsoft the top score in a test of operating system update services.
Microsoft's Windows Update was available 100 percent of the second quarter of 2008, Pingdom said in a blog posting on Friday. Apple's service was down two hours and 34 minutes, with 99.9 percent uptime, and Canonical's Ubuntu version of Linux was down one day, five hours and 45 minutes, for 98.64 percent uptime.
"Microsoft wins this one hands down," Pingdom said. It noted that Ubuntu's service also is available through mirror sites, however.
The company tested the three services every five minutes.
During the second quarter of 2008, Canonical's update service for the Ubuntu operating system had more downtime than Apple's or Microsoft's services
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Over-exaggerated graph scale, completely pointless point, and total disregard for the much more important aspects of updates; quality, frequency, and duration of development (time between flaw discovered and flaw fix distributed). And mirror sites don't count?
These kinds of attacks against Linux will never stick, they need substance to do that.
Next thing you M$ they will have a company say the box, vista comes in, is more pleasing to the eye than Linux. Oops, my bad, I download my Linux, for free, I don't have to pay for packaging.
Trouble with Microsofts update service is the stuff that comes from it rather than its reliability. Everyone with zone alarm got kicked off the net a few days ago after one of their 'ultra reliable' updates. Troubling to see they don't test their updates with widely used, popular software. Spent hours sorting out various friends and families PCs after that one, I would rather the patches were reliable rather than the update service.
oh yes it does