Apple devices >3x more stable in corporate environments than Windows

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Windows devices saw 3.1x more forced shutdowns than macOS

Omnissa says Windows devices in its enterprise telemetry dataset saw 3.1 times more forced shutdowns than macOS in 2025, alongside higher crash and app-hang rates.
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The >3x was for shutdowns alone, Macs also had fewer app hangs and crashes.

I don't think this will be a huge surprise to people on these forums, previous studies (I think the most famous being a 2016 IBM study) have found Macs to be more const-effective in the long run than PCs for companies to deploy.
 
Back when I was running Mac OS 8.6, I would average a little more than one app-takes-everything-down crash every day. I would reboot and get back to doing stuff. It was something of a nuisance but not that bad. Meanwhile, my friends on w95/98 would have far fewer crashes (at least an order of magnitude) but their system crashes, more often than not, would call for a corrective nuke&pave. To me, that was unheard of. Once my HD was set up, I never, ever, had to reformat. Not even once. Crashes were a short workflow interruption, costing much less time than having to rebuild.

I have to admit, the Windows machine I had to use at work was pretty stable. But, it was probably hardened against malware, and we could not download stuff from the internets.
 
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