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