[benjarrell]

“We have received reports from a few customers of higher system reboots after applying firmware updates.”

What does higher mean here?

[Someone]

The original statement, as phrased by their engineers, probably was something like “Our latest firmware regularly crashes your system, triggering reboots” (plus a few paragraphs with a highly detailed description of why that happened that only the engineers who wrote the firmware would understand)

This is what they ended up with after a few reviews with legal (“we can’t say ‘our’; they’ll eat us in court”) and marketing (“We need a less emotionally loaded way to say ‘crash’”)

Legal aimed to maintain just enough meaning in the statement to be able to say “we warned customers as soon as we could”; marketing aimed to make it a positive message. I guess that’s why ‘higher’ won over ‘more’.

[dboreham]

Means whoever typed that can't write.

[adamson]

As in more reboots than they had been experiencing before applying the updates

[IvyMike]

more frequent

[kbenson]

With the implication that random reboots of a lesser, but non-zero frequency are okay, it's at least expected?

Odd wording for sure.

[ahoka]

If you have Intel wireless or display drivers installed then it is perfectly normal for a computer to randomly reboot.

[clarry]

How often?

I have 495 days of uptime here with intel graphics & wireless.

[Avamander]

Reboot your PC mate, the kernel needs updating.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Kpatch?