Tesseract Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 SEATTLE, Oct 2 (Reuters) - One percent of the bugs in Microsoft Corp.'s (NasdaqNM:MSFT - News) software cause half of all reported errors with 20 percent of bugs responsible for 80 percent of the mistakes, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday Microsoft, the world's largest software company, has been criticised for unstable and unwieldy software -- which runs on more than 90 percent of personal computers. "Let's acknowledge a sad truth about software: any code of significant scope and power will have bugs in it," Ballmer told customers in a memo similar to one by Chairman Bill Gates this year renewing Microsoft's commitment to trustworthy computing. But Ballmer said Microsoft was arming itself with better information to help develop its software, by building error reporting features into its products. Engineers use the reports, sent in a short burst over the Internet, to track software bugs and provide a fix, he said. Read More...... Source: Yahoo! Finance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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