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Originally Posted by KevinH
So that means you never fix bugs? No, it means you fix the bug and test the hell out of it before releasing the fix. Microsoft has done neither.
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The issue in question is not a 'bug', it's a legacy feature in a 40 year old application that is the most widely used in its class… by a country mile.
As for testing the 'hell out of it" - I couldn't agree more, especially with large corporate and public service clients who use it in their LOB and Mission Critical business processes.
There used to be an adage: "
Software should only be changed when the cost of not changing it exceeds the cost of doing the change - including loss of market share." Is it still around. For some reason i associate that with Tom Peters.
I suspect MS doesn't suffer from FONKU
