Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects'

[kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <t7u2ja5lpx.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com>, Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com> writes:
> Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch> writes:
>> Urging developers to clean up their code, a Microsoft exec
>> says: 'How many of you would spend $500 on a piece of
>> software with over 63,000 potential known defects?' It
>> ships Thursday.
>> 
>> Not everyone will be having fun at Microsoft Corp. next week. While
>> the software giant and its partners celebrate the arrival of Windows
>> 2000 on Thursday, Feb. 17, hundreds of members of the Windows
>> development team will be busy cleaning up the mess.
>> 
>> Someone to sell or install them poor an Ada compiler ? ;o) G.
> 
> Why do you think the defects have anything to do with the language
> used to develop Windows 2000? Do you know that the defects are
> coding errors, as opposed to being design errors or unimplemented
> features?

I am convinced that a great many of their defects are coding issues.

I am not convinced that fixing all the coding issues (by any method)
would not still leave a great many other defects, probably enough to
make the fact that coding issues had been fixed invisible to the user.

I am not at all convinced that defects enumerated by Microsoft (or
any other vendor) cover a reasonable fraction of the total defects
in the software.