Microsoft sued for Windows Boot Time. Need More info Because It Just Sounds Stupid Right Now

A number of employers have started a class action against Microsoft, arguing that their employees spend between 30mn to 60mn a day in the Windows boot sequence. The attacking party includes AT&T or Cigna.

To reach 30mn to 60mn of boot times a day, the worker must either have a computer that really suck (they claim that Vista takes 15mn to boot), or they have to reboot 15-40 times a day. In either case, someone in this company has to be fired. It could be whoever decided to install Vista on crap machines (come on, Vista boots in less than 3mn on a $400 Nettop) or for using apps that crash 40 times a day.

I’m not particularly fan of Microsoft, but I’d like to see more information on these boot times. PC specifications, number or reboots a day. Right now, it just sounds like one more stupid lawsuit. I used to work for a hardware company using beta hardware and beta drivers, sometimes on a beta OS, writing beta software, but I don’t think that I ever spent 60mn a day in boot sequence.

Hubert Nguyen
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