[WinMac] Fw: Tidbit - Broad PC Software Bug Performance is Unacceptable, and Getting Worse...

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:19:00 -0500

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        Actually, BugNet had some pretty nasty things to say about the Mac in
general not too long ago... And at the time, he (Bruce Brown) was full of
sh**! :)

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 10:10 AM 1/13/99 -0500, Thomas Kase wrote:
>
>Here is a piece from another mailing list about software bugs
>that I thought might be helpful to people on this list as well.
>
>BugNet is an interesting web site.
>
>--------------------------------
>
>At BugNet, a website dedicated to tracking bugs and bugfixes, they
>decided, for the first time in 4 years, not to give out the BugNet
>annual award for "best bug fix performance".
>
>Some of the reasons are stated as "... bug fix rates have declined
>with every new mass market version of Windows...", and "Fact is, PCs
>-- and the software products that animate them -- don't work very
>well. The average American would never buy an electric razor, let
>alone a chain saw or a mountain bike -- that was as buggy and
>unreliable as a PC."
>
>The whole text can be read at:
><http://www.bugnet.com/analysis/no_award.html>.
>
>-------------------------------
>
>Pre-empting Dan S' reply - let me suggest that these 3rd party
>implementation issues shouldn't cause anyone to stop and worry.
>
>It'll be fixed with the next release, just download the latest driver ;-)
>
>
>Thomas Kase
>
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>
>PS
>The list in question was:
>The EvangeList <evangelist@public.lists.apple.com>
>The author:
>Johan-Kristian Wold <mailto:jkwold@nortrykk.no>
>
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