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| reply to KoolMoe
Re: Before the *nix and mac users come out...
Ok, lets examine this.
Windows 95 was created half assed, I will agree to that. However, lets look at Windows 98. Win98 was released to 200,000 beta testers. Win2k was released to over a million. You give all these copies away and many people install the OS and report the bugs. However, what happens when it is released to 20x more people? You think all bugs are going to be found in a beta test? How many beta tests are needed?
I guess my question to you is, do you believe there is any software out there today that doesn't have holes or exploits in it? I can't think of a single one. Don't get me wrong here, I am not saying Microsoft should just release a product carelessly. What I am saying is you can beta test all you want, and with the hundreds of thousands of different hardware combinations you are still going to run into problems. That still doesn't count in the hacker and cracker community who constantly look for exploits and such.
Sorry, I don't buy the whole sloppy code arguement. Any popular OS would be nailed with similar problems...which is why you have patches.
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