Something useful from Microsoft?

Something useful seems to come out of Microsoft finally. Some study on
cpu failure rates. They say:

"We present the first large-scale analysis of hardware failure rates on
a million consumer PCs. We find that many failures are neither transient
nor independent. Instead, a large portion of hardware induced failures
are recurrent: a machine that crashes from a fault in hardware is up to
two orders of magnitude more likely to crash a second time."
See: https://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=144888

Best,
Sasi

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Free Software Foundation of India
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