From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,78a1af350f4cf4b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Charles Hixson Subject: Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Date: 2000/02/17 Message-ID: <38AC41FE.73461614@earthlink.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 587026815 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38A989B7.2D4D6B56@maths.unine.ch> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 950813206 198.94.156.19 (Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:46:46 PST) Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:46:46 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 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?