An excellent article to start the day off this morning, courtesy of The Economist.
It is well known that some software manufacturers release products full of errors but as the above article shows, they actually accept a low standard as the norm.
"Microsoft, for instance, reckons to find 10-20 defects per 1,000 lines of code during its in-house testing, and to whittle that down to 0.5 per 1,000 lines by the time the software is released to the public"
Still that represents a significant proportion of errors.
What (doesn't) surprise me though, is that companies such as this, still think it's okay to send out sub standard product, and that we the consumers have to accept it and have to pay full price for it.
I really do hope that other companies don't take this point of view.
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