Bugs in Vista are at Microsoft’s tolerable level practice
October 10, 2006 by Milo Riano
Filed under Computers
Microsoft isn’t a company known to release stable builds, and bugs in Windows Vista RC1 build number 5728 were cut from 2,479 to 1450 in RC2; meaning the number of bugs would go down below 500 within the month where the manufacturing RTM version is rumored to be out.
This is a rumor I strongly believe because Microsoft’s philosophy is keeping bug levels tolerable to the user (article here), to determine the readiness of their application before release stage. In this case, the 500 ballpark would fall in their margin of error, and releasing their RTM version this October would be beneficial to their November release to business customers helping them bring the number of bugs even more.
ha ha! only 500 bugs in vista.
i’m throwing out a guess for known issues in microsoft’s vista bug database -
25 thousand.
most, of course, don’t matter much. and, 500 important bugs isn’t bad for a complex OS.
release it microsoft – and release SP1 soon. and, start a very iterative release of OS features.
Joe – I agree with you. I guess Service Packs will go as high as SP3s. :)