Microsoft software update service is more reliable
InformationWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft's software update service is more reliable than those offered by Apple and Linux-distributor Ubuntu, a Web monitoring firm said Friday.
In the second quarter of this year, Windows Update was up 100% of the time, Pingdom, which monitors uptime and performance of Web sites and servers, said in its blog. Apple's Software Update had a "respectable" 99.9% uptime, and Ubuntu fared much worse at 98.64%.
In terms of total downtime for the three-month period, Apple's service was unavailable two hours and 34 minutes and Ubuntu one day, five hours, and 45 minutes, Pingdom said. While Ubuntu finished last, Pingdom noted that the organization's repositories have mirrors around the world, so users can download packages from those as well.