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Big Challenges for Vista Bug Hunters

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the game-over-man-game-over dept.

The New York Times is reporting on the final rush to bug fix Windows Vista. Even with massive numbers of testers and five years of work behind them, the folks in Redmond are pushing it to the wire in order to make sure it releases soon. From the article: "Vista has also been tested extensively. More than half a million computer users have installed Vista test software, and 450,000 of the systems have sent crash data back to Microsoft. Such data supplements the company's own testing in a center for Office referred to as the Big Button Room, for the array of switches, lights and other apparatus that fill the space. (A similar Vista room has a less interesting name -- Windows Test Technologies.) This is where special software automatically exercises programs rapidly while looking for errors."

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  1. Re:special software by pdbaby · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I know a guy who used to work on test suites at Microsoft who has since quit, given their awful attitude towards bugs in Vista, and got a Mac

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  2. Fool them twice, er, um, won't be fooled again! by eyepeepackets · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Most people are not fooled thrice (PHBs excepted) and new crops of folks who have yet to be burned by MS' business ethics and exceptionally bloated software products are shrinking rapidly -- MS is running out of suckers. Which explains much about MS's Playstation and iPod knockoffs: At least MS knows their con is running out of conees in the PC software racket.

    New product lines we might see from MS in the near future:

    - Pointy, singing tin-foil hats stamped with "PHBs Rule!" and an image of Dilbert's boss -- with ads for sale to the highest bidder
    - Lapel pins which sing out screechy fortunes -- with ads for sale to the highest bidder
    - Singing tires for your automobile -- with ads for sale to the highest bidder
    - Singing Toilet paper -- with ads for sale to the highest bidder (I might buy this one, hmm.)

    The list is endless, the point is made, I'm outta here.

    Happy Monday to all.

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  3. Here we go by CxDoo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Cue in:

    1) Windows is extremely unstable and it BSODs every an hour or so. You have to reinstall it every month, there is no other way around it. Me, I switched over to Linux in 1997 and never looked back.

    2) Windows administration is royal PITA; you can't do jack shit and everything is so confusing and convoluted. Every time I have to touch a Windoze box (once in three months or so) I feel so frustrated. Me, I don't run Windows anywhere.

    3) NT is a dead end OS, it's inherently flawed. They should switch over to Linux/BSD/Whatever like Apple did. I mean, if Apple could do it, why Microsoft can't?

    4) Why is Office so important? OO is getting better. And there is GIMP, yeah.

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