Uh, 63,000. Maybe 65,000. Of those, at least 28,000 are considered "real" problems. Now what do you think we could be talking about, anyway? Your favorite Redmond, Washington software company, perhaps??

You guessed it: this ZDNet/PC Week article entitled "Can Microsoft Squash 63,000 Bugs in Win2K?" lays it all on the line. The information comes from an internal Microsoft memo and declares the Windows team's intention to fix the code mess before the final release date. Microsoft has responded to the leaking of the above figures with a vigorous defense, declaring that "hundreds of companies have signed off on the incredibly high quality and reliability of Windows 2000."

As we all know, every new Mac OS release has problems that are corrected in later revisions. No new operating system is without so-called "bugs." But Windows 2000 has an enormous number of lines of code. It's really, really big. It's so big that it just might have more than the usual number of problems to correct. If you're on the Microsoft Windows 2000 team, you're going to be working late for the foreseeable future. Say goodbye to the wife or husband and kids, because the "plan" called for zero bugs. . .

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July 05, 2009