[Smile-n-Win]

Courtois claimed that Microsoft has been tracking the total cost of ownership (TCO) in 12 organisations across a range of business sectors, and that in 95 per cent of cases the "TCO was better on the Windows platform".

Did they count the cost of the time spent rebooting?

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With Windows XP rebooting is rarely an issue as it was in earlier versions of Windows since its based on the industrial strength NT kernel. Linux server versions on the other hand have almost always been crash proof. Even a error won't bring down the entire operating system. It's taken til XP for Microsoft to get Windows up to that standard of computing reliability on home computers.