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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (27926)	2/17/2000 9:46:00 PM
From: Thomas C. Kimmel	Read Replies (2) of 64865

Cheryl, Your comments are really thought-provoking. Why would Ballmer ever say such things? If I may speculate: - He was just looking at the Win2K validation test results and observed that there were only 64000 (so far) identified defects. That's only 1.6 per 1000 lines of code - quite an admirable achievement. Then he just got carried away and, instead of silently, with dignity, allowing his superior product to speak for him by inexorably crushing the opposition in the marketplace, he succumbed to a brief weakness to indulge in some juvenile baiting. or: - Given the cutbacks in the test suite due to delivery pressures, only 10% of the logic was actually covered during validation. The addendum to the report anticipates that the lengthy beta process would have encountered the worst of the predicted additional 576,000 defects, had they existed. Ballmer has some problems with this assertion which the Tums will not entirely assuage. Hence his testiness. or: - Ballmer has been cogitating on the fact that Bill Gates is the Chief Software Architect of his company. This scares the bejeezus out of him and he is going off the deep end. Other theories? -tck

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