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This is not accurate. All complex software has had bugs since Grace Hopper's moth, at least, and it was never common to seek refunds because of software errors.
by munchler 5y ago
This is not accurate. All complex software has had bugs since Grace Hopper's moth, at least, and it was never common to seek refunds because of software errors. Microsoft is only notable because DOS and Windows became ubiquitous in a way that no previous software had, exposing the whole world to unreliable software.
(I've been a professional programmer since the mid 1980's, so I do remember. )
- lostlogin 5y ago> This is not accurate Have you used Office? Whatever those apps are now, online, in Teams, stand-alone, it’s a steaming mess. Various functions work in various places and things like moving an image are just ridiculously broken. It isn’t this bad with other vendors.
- mlac 5y agoI see your Microsoft office and raise you blackberry work.
- munchler 5y agoI never said Microsoft makes good software. Indeed, Office is often very buggy. My point is that Microsoft isn’t unusual in this regard at all, except that their software has become very popular. In other words, people experience Microsoft bugs very often, not because Microsoft software is unusually bad, but because Microsoft’s software is unusually prevalent in the world.