rockysmolin at bchacc.com
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Fri May 21 10:13:57 CDT 2010
Well there's an obvious answer to your question - I think. The cost of an error in the space shuttle is death. The testing has to be perfect. The cost of errors in Windows is lost hair, mostly. It's not a mission critical application (for users who do their disk images and/or backups regularly). The 80/20 rule says you're going to spend a huge amount of money uncovering those last few bugs. Microsoft COULD make Windows error free but it wold probably cost $3,000 a copy in stead of $300. You've worked with government contracts enough to know the routine. ROcky Original Message: ----------------- From: Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 19:07:21 -0700 To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [dba-Tech] Now why is not Windows written to this standard? I received this link and it made me ask the question...Why can not Windows be written with the same confidence? Does Windows and virtually all other software for that matter have to have thousands of errors? Is it because thousands of jobs depend on those errors? if MS could even come close to matching a near perfect Desktop, would they have any concerns from competition? Is there not checking software that if given time and the right testing scenarios can virtually uncover any bug? But what do I know? http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/06/writestuff.html?page=0,0 Jim _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE