Microsoft guru predicts Vista half as buggy

Microsoft guru predicts Vista half as buggy
Robert Lemos, 2007-03-12

Microsoft Diet XP 2007-03-12
Anonymous

Only 50% of the critical bugs and 30% of the Important bugs as Windows XP!!...

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Microsoft guru predicts Vista half as buggy 2007-03-13
Anonymous

I see it like this:

Microsoft doesn't have a clue on how to design a proper and correct operating system and so it took them 5 years to release an almost proper and correct one (Windows Vista). Windows XP took them 2 years to release, and thus has 2.5 as much bugs as Windows Vista.

If they wan...

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Microsoft guru predicts Vista half as buggy 2007-03-13
Nom de Guerre (1 replies)

Microsoft is well known for their visionaries. About a decade ago, they predicted the Internet won't exist....

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Re: Microsoft guru predicts Vista half as buggy 2007-03-16
bOUNCeErR

And famous "640 kB will suffice for everyone". :)...

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Microsoft guru predicts Vista half as buggy 2007-03-14
Anonymous

Would you buy a bag of flour that advertised "New and improved with 50% fewer bugs than before"?...

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I suspect he's right... 2007-03-16
Anonymous (1 replies)

So far, I've been impressed with Vista's security. Vulnerability-wise, Secunia.com reports 13 vulnerabilities for Mac OS X in 2007, 7 in Linux 2.6, and 2 in Windows Vista. While I'm very sure that more will be found in Vista in the future, it's so far holding its own against the competition. I su...

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Re: I suspect he's right... 2007-04-09
Security Official

The only reason there are fewer vulnerabilities in VISTA is because the scanners don't know how to treat it, so the testing of VISTA is flawed to begin with.

Unless MS decides to write code from scratch, instead of band-aiding, patching and updating existing code from XP and 2k, it's going to be ...

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