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Originally Posted by scastle
I don't think Windows has any more or fewer bugs than any software. We were taught at Uni that IBM (who have done a lot of work on bug-tracking systems) found that, on average, there was 1 bug for every 1000 lines of code. They tested software written for all operating systems (including Linux).
Another way of looking at it is that somewhere around 95% of the worlds PC's use Windows. This means there are more hackers looking for faults. Of course more bugs will show up.
At least Microsoft are regularly releasing patches.
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Averages are very good at disguising the real offenders. If the average is one buggy line per 1,000, then one company may produce one every 500 while another, just one every 1,500. The average is still 1 every 1,000 but one company produces three times as many bugs as the other.