From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects'
Date: 2000/02/17
Date: 2000-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38AC41FE.73461614@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: t7u2ja5lpx.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com
Well, they may be design errors, but they aren't all merely unimplemented
features (partially implemented, perhaps) as some of them are designated
as potentially serious problems.
Hyman Rosen wrote:
> Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch> writes:
> > Urging developers to clean up their code, a Microsoft exec
> > says: 'How many of you would spend $500 on a piece of
> > software with over 63,000 potential known defects?' It
> > ships Thursday.
> >
> > Not everyone will be having fun at Microsoft Corp. next week. While
> > the software giant and its partners celebrate the arrival of Windows
> > 2000 on Thursday, Feb. 17, hundreds of members of the Windows
> > development team will be busy cleaning up the mess.
> >
> > Someone to sell or install them poor an Ada compiler ? ;o) G.
>
> Why do you think the defects have anything to do with the language
> used to develop Windows 2000? Do you know that the defects are
> coding errors, as opposed to being design errors or unimplemented
> features?
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2000-02-15 0:00 Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Gautier
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
[not found] ` <RUkq4.1243$dw3.69085@news.wenet.net>
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Dang! (was Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects') Mike Silva
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Brian Rogoff
[not found] ` <150220001931201946%emery@grebyn.com>
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
2000-02-19 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
2000-02-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
[not found] ` <1e66z6d.1a9fzdvtbw6t2N%herwin@gmu.edu>
2000-02-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Charles Hixson [this message]
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Mike Dimmick
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
2000-03-08 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-03-10 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <38A9C619.790950B0@quadruscorp.com>
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Gautier
[not found] ` <38A9C4ED.C75316F9@raytheon.com>
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Windows TP (Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects') Vladimir Olensky
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