Microsoft: Because Bugs are Cool

h_orion writes "According to Mr. Gates, Microsoft recieves 'Less than one percent' call volume in relation to bugs. He also blames the users lack of knowledge as a cause of some of these bugs. He goes on to say that the feeling of frustration that people hold towards bugs is a sociological issue, rather than technical saying that people complain about software bugs 'Because it's cool.' Read more in this interview." Boy, where do you even begin...

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Hey what's that sound?

[ObviousGuy]

Nobody demanding to see the original transcript?

No, those links at the bottom don't lead to the original transcript, only some German "analysis" of the original transcript.

Because of this blatant lack of evidence, everything else is suspect.

/. editors got duped again !!!

[Anonymous Coward]

How do /. editors know that this was a real interview ?

This link is not even on FOCUS magazine's website

This post fooled you all
The interview link in the post is on The Cantrip Corpus
website

cantrip: (kän tRip), n. (Chiefly Scot.)
1. a magical charm or enchantment; 2. an elaborate deception or prank.
corpus: (kôr pus), n., pl. -pora,
1. a complete set of writings; 2. a dead body.

Re:Im shocked

[acedeuce]

Please note the date of the interview. This is almost 8 years old.
If I were paranoid, this sounds like a MS troll to elicit uneducated, kneejerk reactions to ancient history.
Beware, some of the comments will appear in MS press releases in order to show the "infantile" level of OS supporters.
geo

Re:Uhhh, date?

[cheezedawg]

Sort of like the embarassing quotes about 640k.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/gatesivu.htm

Q. Did you ever say, as has been widely circulated on the Internet, "640K [of RAM] ought to be enough for anybody?"
No! That makes me so mad I can't believe it! Do you realize the pain the industry went through while the IBM PC was limited to 640K? The machine was going to be 512K at one point, and we kept pushing it up. I never said that statement-I said the opposite of that.

http://www.urbanlegends.com/celebrities/bill.gates /gates_memory.html

QUESTION: I read in a newspaper that in 1981 you said, ``640K of memory should be enough for anybody.'' What did you mean when you said this?

ANSWER: I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

Re:Im shocked (are you joking)

[UcensorMe]

Gates has been known to attack interviewers in the past. In recent years he has been trying to clean up his image a bit and not seem like the huge ass hole that he really is. I think Gates is so insulated from the real world that he suffers from Michael Jackson syndrome, where he is able to create his own reality. When he is confronted with the truth he becomes defensive.

Re:Im shocked

[PhilHibbs]

He was interviewed by Jeremy Paxman on the BBC a few years back, probably at about the same time as this interview. Paxman asked him something like "Why is your software so unreliable?" and he answered, "Maybe you aren't using it correctly". So this interview is spot on about Bill's attitude to bugs back then.

Re:it looks more like a satire

[Bunji X]

The interview was published in October 1995, maybe Bill G has learned beeing more polite in public since back then. IIrc, he used to be a bit more arrogant.

They say you grow older and wiser, after all.