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Microsoft to roll out RTM version of Windows Vista this month | |
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| Time: 00:50 EST/05:50 GMT | News Source: DigiTimes | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Microsoft is expected to roll out the RTM (released to manufacturing) version of its upcoming Windows Vista operating system this month, before to officially launch the product to business customers in November, according to sources at Taiwan-based system makers. Last week's release of Windows Vista Release Candidate 2 (RC2), or the build number 5744, has reduced the number of bugs from 2,479, which were found in the RC1 build number 5728 version, to 1,450, the sources noted. This month, the number of bugs is expected to be further reduced to 500 or even below, the sources indicated. | ||
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| #1 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 10/11/2006 4:19:28 PM |
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So it will ship with 500 known bugs?
TL |
| #2 By 931 (24.98.162.197) at 10/12/2006 12:04:52 AM |
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"or even below" ... so maybe we'll get lucky and they will only bake in 350 known bugs.
Good god. "Hey team don't worry we've got the holiday season to pump out QFE hotfixes. |
| #3 By 17996 (66.235.19.95) at 10/12/2006 12:42:59 AM |
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You guys obviously don't know much about building large software products. (Remember, Windows is the largest software engineering project in existance.)
You never get down to "zero known bugs". Ever. You do get to a point where the only bugs you have are those that it is not worth delaying a release for. For example, bugs that aren't regressions (i.e. that existed in prior versions such as XP), or bugs for which the fix would be too risky (i.e. likely to introduce further bugs). In those cases, just carry over the bug to the next version of the product and fix it then. Security fixes are probably the only exception: you can't ship a product with known security vulnerabilities. Vista has had hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of testers since beta 2 was released in May. Just think how many pieces of feedback that generated. How many bugs it generated. There's no way that Microsoft could fix millions of bugs in these past 5 months. If you wait until every single bug is fixed, you will never ship the product. |
| #4 By 17996 (66.235.19.95) at 10/12/2006 12:45:35 AM |
| Clarification: It's my guess that the "number of bugs" that the article refers to, are those bugs that *are* getting fixed before Vista ships. That is, it represents the work that MS still needs to do before they can say Vista is done. It doesn't include the countless bugs that aren't worth fixing and have been postponed; those probably number in the tens or hundreds of thousands. |
| #5 By 37 (67.37.29.142) at 10/12/2006 7:16:58 AM |
| I think the latest Firefox build fixed like 500 bugs, and that is just a browser. LOL. |
| #6 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 10/16/2006 3:37:21 PM |
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Surely, you guys have "sequenced" apps that you have built - found very specific bugs, for which a fix was deferred? - <= 500 bugs is peanuts in something as big as Vista - truly!
Any company would be jumping up and down to achieve so low a number in such a large platform - and I am not kidding. It is amazing that their goal is this low and it suggests just how mature Microsoft's development tools and methods are. |
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