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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.

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"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.

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.

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