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There are hundreds of windows 7 & 8 users around me, including myself. Haven't seen a bluescreen for a long long time.

This is anecdote, but my Win8 crashed just this morning, when I unplugged my mouse from one and plugged it back into another USB port. It dumped memory to disk (with nice progress indicator :)), restarted and booted perfectly ok, just asked me if I want to send the data about the crash to Microsoft. It never happened before and I don't suspect it will happen again this or next year, either, but - it sure happens :)

As a similar anecdote, two days ago my Xorg server crashed. Not WM (E17) mind you, but X server. It was running continuously for about two months, was eating more and more RAM and finally, when Chromium froze and went on a RAM eating frenzy, the server crashed. It was the first time I saw X server crashing since I fought with enabling compositing in XFree on PIII 1Ghz, but still, it happened.

So, what I want to say is that no software can run flawlessly forever; it's just a question about how often (or how rarely) the crash (or other malfunction) is going to happen. 0.28 bluescreens per month per user is a pretty impressive feat and it's says more about how good than how bad W8 is.

Hi, Roee from Soluto here. When you deal with big numbers you see lots of BSODs, both in W7 and W8. The people surrounding you may be taking better care of their machines then the average. I personally encountered one BSOD on my shiny W8 machine.

What is the distribution of BSODs? Are they evenly spread over the population or are some users/machines responsible for the majority of cases?

We will improve the visibility of this, thanks.

"The people surrounding you may be taking better care of their machines then the average."

Selection bias works both ways, people who install such "utility" software may be taking worse care of their systems and installing more bloatware.

Just to clarify, the vast majority of our audience currently arrives through sites like LifeHacker, MakeUseOf and HowToGeek. "Bloatware" is uncalled for in this case, it usually refers to shit that's trying to make money of you without providing value. Please read my full comment that includes our bias analysis: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4793863

Will do! For the record, I was referring to the sort of user who installs "tuning" software in general, I was not referring to your product specifically. No insult was intended.

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