Statistics…

In the “Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction” department:

Speaking at the company’s annual meeting for financial analysts here, Bill Gates, Microsoft’s cofounder and chairman… acknowledged today that the company’s error reporting service indicated that 5 percent of all Windows-based computers now crash more than twice each day.

Markoff, John (2003, July 24), <i>Microsoft Moves to Weather Time of Slow Growth</i>. Retrieved July 26, 2003, from <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/technology/25SOFT.html" title="Microsoft Moves to Weather Time of Slow Growth">www.nytimes.com/ 2003/ 07/ 25/ technology/ 25SOFT.html</a>.