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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dybdahl who wrote (67260)	4/14/2002 1:06:49 AM
From: Dave	Respond to of 74651

I would be very surprised if Microsoft manages to do more than squashing some existing bugs. They don't have the manpower to do anything else. They admitted that Windows 2000 shipped with over 63,000 known bugs. If it makes you feel any better, only about 21,000 were considered "real problems." Microsoft Office for Mac OS X shipped with so many bugs that they announced (proudly, for some reason) that the first update is going to have over a thousand bug fixes in it. But Microsoft fans shouldn't be worried about this. Microsoft's monopolies aren't maintained by striving to ship bug-free software, but rather from MANAGING their Bug Base so that the right bugs are fixed, while the ones that hurt their competitors are left in place. And of course selling each buggy set of bug fixes to their sucker customers. Dave