Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Aug 2005 22:00 UTC
Andy Martin of The Committee to Fight Microsoft on Tuesday announced his intentions to block Microsoft from releasing its Windows Vista operating system. Martin intends to ask Microsoft for an unconditional warranty that the operating system is free of bugs that could result in security vulnerabilities. He argues that no company in America gets away with selling a "defective" product the way Microsoft does.
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2005-06-29
Well...
I don't think he's asking for bug free, just for a reasonable level of workability. And he makes a good point that each big Microsoft release has been plagued:
Win95 was a device driver nightmare.
Win98 wasn't reliable, it could only run for weeks.
WinXP had huge security problems.
I'm unaware of what WinNT 3/4 had going on, maybe it was good? I know there are fixes in SMB they refuse to backport to it now.
Maybe the company has turned around, or maybe XP is just mature now so they've worked most of their stupid mistakes out? I guess Vista will kind of tell us.
Software companies have never been known for being responsible though...