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Is there any software company out there that ships products on the scale of Windows and Office and always fixes all known bugs in its code before RTM? If you k
by endtime 17y ago
Is there any software company out there that ships products on the scale of Windows and Office and always fixes all known bugs in its code before RTM? If you know a bug will only affect 0.1% of users 0.1% of the time, it doesn't do anything showstopping even then, and fixing it will delay your release, you'd probably decide not to fix it too.
Disclaimer: I am working at MS this summer. But I would have said the same thing months ago.
- mcav 17y agoHeck, if and when I find bugs that affect .1% of users .1% of the time, I'd put it at a lower priority than the release, even with a tiny project. Cost to benefit.