[Sussex] Suing Microsoft for loss of life?

[Gareth Ablett]

By Jon.
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> Hmm.. interesting concept (brought to my attention by Phil Gibbons)
> 
> The amount of time that I spend rebooting windows must all mount up.
If it
> takes 2 minutes to reboot windows to the desktop, and I have to do
this 3
> times a day, that means that i've lost 6 minutes of my life.. per day.
I work
> 5 days a week, that makes 30 minutes per week. Assuming I work 47
weeks per
> year, that's 1410 minutes per year - 23.5 hours, almost a day!
> 
> This then means that if I work with windows for my working life (50
years,
> ish) I will die having lost at least 50 days of my life! That's two
and a
> half years holiday allowance, which I could have spend
relaxing/sunning
> myself.
> 
> So, any lawyers here (Mrs. Geoff?) care to comment... should we file a
class
> action lawsuit on behalf of all of Microsoft's customers and
employees?
> 


An interesting point of view, but if you take into account the amount of
time that a windows workstation will crash during the day. I must admit
less so now for win2000 but if you ever have the misfortune to work on
win9x for a day it's bound to crash at least once depending on what work
you are doing.


Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

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