Microsoft Fixes 1,000 Vista Bugs in Two Weeks!?

Wed Oct 4, 2006 3:28AM EDT

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The big news today is the newly announced Release Candidate 2 (RC2) revision of Windows Vista, an unusual step for Microsoft which usually goes from RC1 to RTM (Release To Manufacturing), or all but shipped off to that great big CD pressing and shrinkwrapping factory in an unnamed eastern nation.

But read the fine print of Paul Thurrott's story: Today Vista has a mere 1,400 bugs in it. This sounds like a lot, but if Microsoft is to be believed, this is down, way down, from 2,470 bugs on September 22. Whoa! At this rate, Vista will be bug-free before Halloween.

Now that's probably a bit overly optimistic. In fact, Microsoft's "internal processes" require that a product can have "only" 500 bugs before it goes to RTM. (Sorry folks, Microsoft just doesn't release products with zero bugs.) Presumably those bugs will be fixed in patches and upgrades over time.

So let me put it to you: Is the fact that Microsoft chopped 1,000 bugs out of Vista in two weeks good news, or is it bad news that Microsoft now has three weeks to go before its stated October 25 RTM deadline and nearly 1,500 bugs remaining? I anxiously await your comments.

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  • 1 Posted by me_brown on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:17PM EDT Report Abuse

    Did they reduce bugs by cutting features? Or maybe fixing one big also fixed two others? Or maybe "bug" was redefined? Or lower-priority bugs were shunted to the a later service release upgrade?

  • 2 Posted by rben7ga on Thu Sep 3, 2009 8:31PM EDT Report Abuse

    Wow, sounds great! But so did 'Mission Accomplished' a couple years ago. If it read 1,000 critical or high priority bugs I'd be more impressed. My true concern, how many new ones did they introduce?

  • 3 Posted by shodanjon on Thu Sep 3, 2009 9:21PM EDT Report Abuse

    That's not a bug! That's a 'feature'! If the bugs are in 'features' that I don't use, then I'm not too concerned. If it involves basic functionality or, more important, stability, then I'm waiting for 6 months or so to make the switch.

  • 4 Posted by ronalainventer on Thu Sep 3, 2009 8:49PM EDT Report Abuse

    My goodness, at this rate, they'll never be done with the bugs! But I'll still use XP for atleast another five years!

  • 5 Posted by selva_mce on Thu Sep 3, 2009 9:12PM EDT Report Abuse

    Happy New Year for Hackers! They will utilise the loopholes in the Vista OS to crack the computer! MS monopolise this market!! No way to get a bug free OS!!

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