Friday, February 11, 2000

Win2K with Bugs63K -- 6:41 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

ZDNet is reporting that the soon-to-ship Windows 2000 has some 63,000 bugs or incomplete features. Some 28,000 of these bugs are likely to cause "real problems". Hoo boy. Thanks Blue's News.

J.t.Qbe comments: Ok, with ~40M lines of code in the thing, you'd expect some bugs. Since it'll be the first release of a Microsoft product, you'd expect a lot of bugs. But 28K or 63K? If it had that many serious bugs, I think we'd've heard a huge outcry from the "beta testers" (who pay for the privilege of beta testing). I always take Mary Jo Foley (ZDNet author) with several grains of salt.

Not that I don't expect a lot of serious problems with Win2K, mind you. I'm sure it'll have many, many real bugs and security holes. But the pointy-haired bosses love Microsoft's marketing machine and buy the bit about "the incredibly high quality and reliability of Windows 2000". I can't wait till my company inflicts Win2K on us later this year (sarcasm). Sure, my Win2K PC will be welcome to sit on my desk. I'll still do my real work with Linux, just as I do now. . .

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