From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects'
Date: 2000/02/15
Date: 2000-02-15T19:06:30+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <t7u2ja5lpx.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38A989B7.2D4D6B56@maths.unine.ch
Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch> writes:
> Urging developers to clean up their code, a Microsoft exec
> says: 'How many of you would spend $500 on a piece of
> software with over 63,000 potential known defects?' It
> ships Thursday.
>
> Not everyone will be having fun at Microsoft Corp. next week. While
> the software giant and its partners celebrate the arrival of Windows
> 2000 on Thursday, Feb. 17, hundreds of members of the Windows
> development team will be busy cleaning up the mess.
>
> Someone to sell or install them poor an Ada compiler ? ;o) G.
Why do you think the defects have anything to do with the language
used to develop Windows 2000? Do you know that the defects are
coding errors, as opposed to being design errors or unimplemented
features?
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2000-02-15 0:00 Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Gautier
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <38A9C619.790950B0@quadruscorp.com>
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-02-15 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
[not found] ` <RUkq4.1243$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
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-02-16 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
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
[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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