Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 15th May 2006 10:06 UTC, submitted by Mica Schunarez
A top Microsoft engineer has thrown out a weekend challenge to the Windows Vista team: find and fix a bug in the current code and earn US$100. The employee who installs the latest Vista build at home and squashes the most bugs before Monday will get an extra US$500. Brian Valentine issued the challenge Friday in an e-mail to members of the team working on Vista, the next update of the company's Windows operating system.
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2005-07-06
Well, this bounty may be the opposite: Microsoft offers $100 per bug, and nobody finds anything! They declare that even with hundreds of interested beta-testers, all of whom want $100, couldn't find a single flaw => Vista has zero bugs. And look at Linux, they get hundreds of patches a day that are obviously bugfixes.
Microsoft may be able to do this, as in my university they held a competition something like "try breaking into Windows Server 2003", with obviously no winners.