scott wrote:
>>> I think you overestimate how many people MS has working on such things.
>>
>> Uh... they're the largest software corporation on the face of the
>> Earth? (And the richest too.)
>
> But still they cannot hire or steer extra employees onto projects
> without justification. That's the main point. It's simply a matter of
> economics - if MS pushed more resources onto fixing every little bug
> they'd run out of money pretty quickly - it's just not feasible when you
> have to pay people to write/debug your code.
Fixing every tiny bug might be infeasible, but you'd think they could at
least fix the huge ones.
Anyway, somebody asked why people hate M$. And I gave an answer: because
M$ does not consider performance or reliability to be "important" enough
to make any attempt to improve them.
Fortunately, the makers of safety-critical hardware and software are
bound by *laws* which prevent them from not fixing bugs just because
it's "not profitable".
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