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____/ Homer on Wednesday 10 Aug 2011 16:40 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee that Hardon spake thusly:
>><http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/10/microsoft_bpos_credit_note/>
> [...]
>> "When you switch to cloud power Microsoft, you never have to worry You
>> can rest easy. Our financially backed 99.9 per cent uptime guarantee
>> means a steady stream of...
>
> ...outages.
>
> Let's add this up.
>
> On may the 10th BPOS was down for 3 days, on the 22nd of June it was
> down for 3 hours, on the 19th of July it was down for 2 hours, and on
> the 8th of August it was down for 7 hours. That's a total of 84 hours.
>
> 84 hours is (1 - (84 / 8760)) * 100 = 99.0411% uptime.
>
> Oh well, so much for three nines. 84 hours is like a /decade's/ worth of
> three nine's downtime ... and it's only August!
>
> "Forty percent of servers run Windows, 60 percent run Linux," he
> said. "How are we doing? Forty is less than 60, so I don't like it.
> ... We have some work to do." ~ Sweaty Ballmer, September 2008
>
> Give up, Ballmer. Windows just can't do servers. Period.
The year is now over yet. It might be Office 360.
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