This is just an Ad to get people to use their service which monitors everything you do on your machine. Nope.
The State of Windows 8
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Re: The State of Windows 8
#62There are hundreds of windows 7 & 8 users around me, including myself. Haven't seen a bluescreen for a long long time.
Hi, Roee from Soluto here. When you deal with big numbers you see lots of BSODs, both in W7 and W8. The people surrounding you may be taking better care of their machines then the average. I personally encountered one BSOD on my shiny W8 machine.
What is the distribution of BSODs? Are they evenly spread over the population or are some users/machines responsible for the majority of cases?
Re: The State of Windows 8
#63There are hundreds of windows 7 & 8 users around me, including myself. Haven't seen a bluescreen for a long long time.
Hi, Roee from Soluto here. When you deal with big numbers you see lots of BSODs, both in W7 and W8. The people surrounding you may be taking better care of their machines then the average. I personally encountered one BSOD on my shiny W8 machine.
"The people surrounding you may be taking better care of their machines then the average."
Selection bias works both ways, people who install such "utility" software may be taking worse care of their systems and installing more bloatware.
Re: The State of Windows 8
#64Hi all, Roee from Soluto here (providers of the W8 data). I'll try to respond to the questions and comments here. But first, a bit of background to the size and quality of our userbase. I warn you this is going to sound defensive, but it's important to establish that we're not a bunch of kids who sampled 50 Win8 VMs. So - Soluto's agent has been downloaded on over 3M machines in over 150 countries. We had one of the…
Fantastic sample size. You should really mention it on linked page since a lot of people are skeptical about these sorts of surveys because of small sample sizes.
Re: The State of Windows 8
#65My 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...
I never shut down my PC (Basically always use sleep/hibernate) and have it running for weeks at a time with the only issue being Firefox freezing up now and again.
I'd suggest the problem is with your laptop.
Re: The State of Windows 8
#66The issue here is data relevancy. How high tech is this audience? How big are the numbers which they are using to pull this information together? You would hope its 6/7/8 figure numbers but as it isn't specified it could be based on a 1000 users which I feel is of limited value. I recently upgraded to Windows8 and I was pleasantly surprised. I like it. It has some issues with consistency. ( Getting IE10 Metro to run…
Hi, Roee from Soluto here, please see my full comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4793863
Re: The State of Windows 8
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi, Roee from Soluto here. When you deal with big numbers you see lots of BSODs, both in W7 and W8. The people surrounding you may be taking better care of their machines then the average. I personally encountered one BSOD on my shiny W8 machine.
"The people surrounding you may be taking better care of their machines then the average." Selection bias works both ways, people who install such "utility" software may be taking worse care of their systems and installing more bloatware.
Just to clarify, the vast majority of our audience currently arrives through sites like LifeHacker, MakeUseOf and HowToGeek. "Bloatware" is uncalled for in this case, it usually refers to shit that's trying to make money of you without providing value. Please read my full comment that includes our bias analysis: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4793863
Re: The State of Windows 8
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It's a very different web service now.
Re: The State of Windows 8
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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Re: The State of Windows 8
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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