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Anatomy Of A Bug In Microsoft Office
bender writes "An insightful look at what it is like to track down and fix a bug in Microsoft Office is available from Microsoft's Blog site."
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I can already fix MS Office bugs by myself!
1. Does it affect Clippy? Fix immediately!
2. Does it affect features? Fix this week.
3. Does it affect security? Fix when you get around to it.
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what it is like to track down and fix a bug
:)
Track a bug? Sounds like trying to follow a single mosquito in the ranforest.
Step 1: Deny existence of bug.
Step 2: Classify bug as feature.
Step 3: Cave to user demand and try to fix bug.
Step 4: Introduce new bugs during the fix.
Step 5: Classify those bugs as features.
Step 6: Pretend bugs are fixed and continue playing Minesweeper.
Here, drive this Yugo instead.
Cretin - a powerful and flexible CD reencoder
the most annoying bug in Office will still be with us.
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
"Brodie figured out that a document is really just a collection of pieces of text"
Brilliant
Hey guys, here's a hint: The internet is just a collection of data packets.. now fix the bugs in Internet Explorer please.
There is a rage in me to defy the order of the stars, despite their pretty patterns.
Humans are bugs, err, humans are viruses. Correction: Humans have bugs.
Programs are like onions. Ogres are like onions. Donkeys like cake.
Mac Office X is the red-headed step child of Microsoft development efforts
Microsoft is a lot like the police.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
I wonder if they'll do another writeup when they fix the next bug.
___
It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
I figured out the missing step: Marketing!
1. Get assigned bug to fix; get distracted and read slashdot instead.
2. ???
3. Bug is fixed; I profit.
Hmm....
I'm not a smorgasbord.
gl4ss is completely correct.
Win95 was THE MOST ADVANCED OS in the world!
Win98 fixed all the bugs in Win95.
Win98SE fixed all the bugs in Win98.
Windows2000 is crash proof and the Unix killer!
Windows XP is even more stable than Win2K and will be sure to slay *nix.
Go digging through the press releases and gushing "journalists" for every single release (except WinME) since (and including) Win95. You'll see the same quotes over and over and over.
Several bugs have been sighted near the southern perimeter and some of our QA staff have been wounded in a couple of minor skirmishes. Strategic Command said the enemy's main move will not come for weeks and certainly not in this sector, though I am beginning to doubt.
27-08-2004 08:26The skirmishes have intensified and several QA squads are trapped between an unknown number of bugs. We even had a few lightning strikes beyond our perimeter, which took out our BugTraq listening post. I tried to call in for assistence from StratCom, because I suspect the main strike is happening here as we speak. 27-08-2004 08:54
The minor skirmishes have ceased along all sectors. We are trying to evacuate the wounded and salvage what's left of some of our equipment. 3rd QA batallion took heavy losses, as did 6th QA and 8th Helpdesk. What is this, some cat and mouse game they are playing with us?
27-08-2004 09:06All hell broke loose! While we were trying to evacuate the wounded, we found our sector under attack from multiple vectors, including artillery and naval support. Whatever remained of 3rd and 6th QA that was stationed in the rear has now been wiped out. 8th Helpdesk has been decimated and I had no other option to commit 24th, 12th and 2nd Developer batallion to the battle, at least untill reinforcements arrive. The enemy seems to be using a superior number of SFU-506 "Sasser" class fighters with ActiveX payloads. I nearly begged StratCom to send some "KB900364" SAM batteries.
27-08-2004 15:56We have pulled back and regrouped in Sector 56. 3rd, 4th, 6th QA got decimated. 8th, 12th and 15th Helpdesk have been routed as well. 24th, 12th and 2nd Developer have been utterly destroyed to save the rest from annihilation. The few who remain are now en-route back home. Some are shell-shocked, one fat guy keeps jumping around yelling "Developers!"... Poor sod, this is war at it's worst.
Gee, I wonder why.
--Rob
Towards the Singularity.
Memo to Microsoft: it may be spelled correctly, but that doesn't guarantee it's the right word.
...laura
>>Not to mention, they actually have a nice R&D shop now, not just the pretense of one anymore.
Ah so they finally upgraded the Reverse engineering dept. It's about time.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
You must be the n00b on the team. I hear the other guys who work on AIX just ask SCO where the bugs are.
Not that this wasn't entirely predictable.
Oh, your Ferrari has a broken cupholder?
Here, drive this Yugo instead.
Which one is the Ferrari and which one is the Yugo? Don't think about this question for more than two seconds otherwise your head will explode!!
MS has the bet R&D dept in the world, and it's called Apple Computer. Take 280 South from SFO, get off at the De Anza exit in Cupertino. Right there. Can't miss it.
You're a jerk 99.999% of the time.
Go get a IBM 3270. :)