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Originally Posted by Graham
Yes, but most people *fix* the bugs in Beta Testing instead of *releasing* what is effectively a Beta Test version and letting the users unwittingly find out the problems...!  |
You can beta test software for as long as you like, and as thoroughly. There will still be bugs that slip through the net though (for instance, IIRC, Windows 2000 was in beta testing for over a year)
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Originally Posted by Chris T
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.
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That is true, and being an average it must be taken as such. I was actually trying to make the point that there are bugs in ALL software, and Microsoft do at least correct some of them..
Having said that, I am sure that there are still bugs within Windows, as much as I am sure there are bugs within Mac OS, Solaris, Linux, Free BSD & any other Operating System you care to name.