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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects'
Date: 2000/02/15
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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?