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Quote about excessive reboots.

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Nathaniel Beaver
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.. _requiring: http://www.howtogeek.com/182817/htg-explains-why-does-windows-want-to-reboot-so-often/
.. _reboots: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/31204/why-do-application-installs-make-you-reboot-and-close-other-apps/
In 2000, when Hotmail switched from FreeBSD to Windows server,
a white paper noted this problem, which persists 15 years later:
Windows operations still involves too many reboots. Sometimes they are
unnecessary, but operators reboot a system rather than take the time to
debug it. For example, a service may be hung, and rather than take the time
to find and fix the problem, it is often more convenient to reboot. By
contrast, UNIX administrators are conditioned to quickly identify the
failing service and simply restart it; they are helped in this by the
greater transparency of UNIX and the small number of interdependencies.
Some reboots are demanded by an application installation, and are not
strictly necessary.
--- David Brooks, Microsoft Hotmail Migration Technical Case Study
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/21/ms_paper_touts_unix/
https://web.archive.org/web/20030206115538/http://remus.softimage.net/hotmail.html
In the long run,
this hurts both proprietary and open-source software
on the Windows platform.