There are hundreds of windows 7 & 8 users around me, including myself. Haven't seen a bluescreen for a long long time.
The State of Windows 8
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Re: The State of Windows 8
#22I find it really hard to believe average crashes is 7.1/month on Windows 7. I run Windows 24/7. It's never crashed. I have an overclocked 4.5Ghz i5 and have many VMware sessions running. Maybe it's because I have quality hardware? Same experience with OS X. Both are rock solid.
It's the program crashes, not the OS ones. Bluescreens are in the next section.
Re: The State of Windows 8
#23I find it really hard to believe average crashes is 7.1/month on Windows 7. I run Windows 24/7. It's never crashed. I have an overclocked 4.5Ghz i5 and have many VMware sessions running. Maybe it's because I have quality hardware? Same experience with OS X. Both are rock solid.
The sample size is users of soluto, which appears to be a tool that analyzes your computer and makes automated 'tweaks' to make it faster and better. If it's like any similar program, that would explain the crashes.
Unless they offer more features than they used to, Soluto just watches your startup programs to determine which ones are slowing you down. They basically make recommendations on which programs to remove from startup. Not a bad service overall.
Re: The State of Windows 8
#24I find it really hard to believe average crashes is 7.1/month on Windows 7. I run Windows 24/7. It's never crashed. I have an overclocked 4.5Ghz i5 and have many VMware sessions running. Maybe it's because I have quality hardware? Same experience with OS X. Both are rock solid.
Device Driver quality is usually the culprit. 90% of my OS X kernel panics are related to USB Hot Plug/Play (now that I think of - maybe one of the reasons why iPads don't have any type of USB Expansion)
Re: The State of Windows 8
#25My home PCs XP runs for years now.
No crashes, no stuck "Apps", no demand for a change.
My laptops 7 is a constant crash, constantly overloaded, reinstalled several times but I have to work on it.
Did not even think about installing 8...
Re: The State of Windows 8
#26I find it really hard to believe average crashes is 7.1/month on Windows 7. I run Windows 24/7. It's never crashed. I have an overclocked 4.5Ghz i5 and have many VMware sessions running. Maybe it's because I have quality hardware? Same experience with OS X. Both are rock solid.
They list which apps crash most - stuff like Google Drive, Adobe Creative Suite, iTunes. The only common one listed is Explorer in Windows 8, which could be due to a storage driver or something. So if you're not running the software they're listing, less likely that you'll see crashiness. I agree, I pretty much never see app crashes and haven't seen a BSOD since like Vista betas.
Re: The State of Windows 8
#27I don't use Windows and I also don't use Google Drive but why on earth does it crash so often?
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#28I am not sure how good this data might be, being that it originates from software that might not be widely deployed. That said, it is always prudent to look for other sources and compare:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
The most surprising bit of information for me has to do with Vista. I didn't realize that it lost out so much ground to W7. We are still running Vista 64 bit on a number of machines because upgrading to W7 would also require upgrading a number of engineering packages that don't play well with W7 unless upgraded. That would cost tens of thousands of dollars and it simply isn't necessary. Aside from a few "features" Vista 64 has been rock-solid as a platform. Some of these workstations see heavy FEA work 18 hours a day, 5 to 7 days a week.
Re: The State of Windows 8
#29I find it really hard to believe average crashes is 7.1/month on Windows 7. I run Windows 24/7. It's never crashed. I have an overclocked 4.5Ghz i5 and have many VMware sessions running. Maybe it's because I have quality hardware? Same experience with OS X. Both are rock solid.
I have the same impression. Windows 7 is very solid. People still think that "windows is crashing", while the application is working incorrectly. Microsoft people do what they can (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html - The Two Forces at Microsoft part). I understand that "normal users" might not see the difference, but people who attempt to perform "statistical analysis" should do.
BTW without knowing what is "Based on Soluto community data" we can't really judge if their analysis has any sense.
Re: The State of Windows 8
#30My home PCs XP runs for years now. No crashes, no stuck "Apps", no demand for a change. My laptops 7 is a constant crash, constantly overloaded, reinstalled several times but I have to work on it. Did not even think about installing 8...
Maybe the problem lies with the laptop? I never have issues with 7, but my experience is just as anecdotal as yours. Have you tried XP on it to be sure?