Windows Update scores 100 per cent service uptime
Published: 15 July 2008 08:44 GMT
Pingdom, 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 per cent 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 per cent uptime, and Canonical's Ubuntu version of Linux was down one day, five hours and 45 minutes, for 98.64 per cent uptime.
Pingdom said: "Microsoft wins this one hands down." It noted that Ubuntu's service also is available through mirror sites, however.
The company tested the three services every five minutes.
Original article: Microsoft ahead of Apple, Ubuntu in OS update reliability from CNET News.com
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