The windows operating system runs most every PC in the world and has made Microsoft the richest, most feared company in the computer industry. But the ubiquitous software also crashes all too often, and early releases are riddled with bugs. No wonder Microsoft has failed, after years of struggle, to extend Windows into the market for the big, mission-critical systems that run entire companies―few of them will trust it. IBM, Sun and Stratus offer systems that run for months and even years on end without crashing, but Microsoft still can't make such a promise. Not without help, anyway. Now it has some, from an obscure firm that has pulled off the impossible: crashproofing Windows.
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