Saturday, January 29, 2005

Tablet PC bug 'fills computer with ink' | The Register: "The tale raises two questions. Firstly, are so few people using Tablet PCs that this doesn't rank on Redmond's radar? The concept has promise, but Tablets only seem to be finding a home in vertical industry niches. Secondly, do Windows PCs stay up for such short periods of time that huge memory leaks aren't considered a serious issue by product managers? That would seem to define 'low expectations'. In the Mac world, a month's uptime isn't unusual (although there too, cruft accumulates). That's because Apple computers go to sleep and resume very quickly and reliably. So is it a case of one Windows bug - unreliable resume - concealing another? And how many more heap geysers would we discover if Windows were ever to reach an acceptable level of uptime? And what constitutes acceptable uptime?"

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