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Bugs In Microsoft Technical Documentation Rising

Posted by kdawson on from the costs-of-monopoly dept.

snydeq writes "The number of bugs in technical documentation for Microsoft communication protocols continues to grow, according to court documents filed for ongoing antitrust oversight of the company in the US. Problems with the technical documentation — which includes 1,660 identified bugs as of Dec. 31, up from 1,196 bugs on Nov. 30 — remain the major complaint from lawyers representing the group of 19 states that joined the US Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. Lawyers for the states have complained repeatedly that technical documentation issues are opening faster than Microsoft can close them. Nearly 800 Microsoft employees are working on the more than 20,000 pages of technical documentation, according to the court documents filed Wednesday."

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  1. Re:To the editors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought everyone here was using an Adblocker by now?
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  2. Not MS's fault. by R2.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The order said that MS had to provide documentation. It didn't specify that it had to be correct.

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  3. It was the best of times... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...it was the worst ofIRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

    Technical information:

    *** STOP: 0x000000D1 (ox20000001, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0xF6EA8BBF)

    *** OLEAPI.PDF - Address F6EA8BBF base at F6E8F000, DateStamp 3f04cf17

    1. Re:It was the best of times... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      No wonder it crashed, you loaded a PDF file as a driver!

  4. Re:To the editors by jonaskoelker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please stop posting articles from info world. The have ads after every page of the article

    O_o How do you know this???

  5. Re:***Security warning!!!*** by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's as easy as:

    troll-get update && troll-get upgrade

    Voila problem solved!

  6. Re:When you have documentation by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Funny

    *waves hand*

    This is not the documentation you're looking for.

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  7. Re:To the editors by DFJA · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're not supposed to RTFA, idiot!

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  8. At least there is documentation! by wouter · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft's documentation may be bug ridden, but at least it is instantly available, easily searched and covers all their products.

    I've had the chance to work with other closed-source and opensource vendors, and none of them come even near the amount of documentation that is readily available on their website. Veritas' documentation just lacks the bugs their software has, and CA never heard about documentation.

  9. Why don't they release the docs *they* use? by Prototerm · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're in text files with a ".h" or a ".c" extension, right?

    Oh, wait.

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  10. Re:To the editors by D+Ninja · · Score: 2, Funny

    But I'm not complaining. I'm working.

    So your job is to sit around and post on Slashdot, then?