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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. special software by macadamia_harold · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is where special software automatically exercises programs rapidly while looking for errors.

    and this software, folks, goes by the name "internet explorer".

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  2. Huh.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Half a million installs, and 450k of them crashed.

    Color me unimpressed.

    1. Re:Huh.. by alohatiger · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or maybe 499,999 didn't crash, and one of them crashed 450,000 times.

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  3. Statistics! by shreevatsa · · Score: 5, Insightful
    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.
    In other words, about nine out of ten systems using Vista crashed at some point. And that's counting just those who sent the crash reports. :-)
  4. 450,000 of 500,000 people report crashes ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obiously 50,000 users didn't test anything at all.

    Just wanted to thank god for linux.