Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects'

[Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>]

Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com> writes:

| kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
| > 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.
| 
| Do you have evidence for any of these convictions?

Usually one do _not_ spot all errors in a program. So if Microsoft has
spotted 63k errors out of which 27k are "real errors" (as said by M$),
I would think that there are probably far more bugs that has not been
detected. Other than that one can look at all the other software
Microsoft has produced and the quality of it.

What I cannot understand is that it is possible to shipping a product
you know has so many bugs and charge money for. Especially in the US
of A. Why companies do not sue Microsoft is beyond me.   

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