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I agree with quite a lot of what has been said by ic, except that I would also add that majority of software bugs come from managers pushing timeschedules and more interested in releasing a product on time, than releasing a product that is 100% secure (which may be ...never...)
budgets, ******* managers, marketers etc...they all pull rank on the techies who do the coding.
p.s. just finished watching an interview with an ms chap on the vista audio subsystem...they have a team of 40 guys who have spent the last two years revamping the volume control applet and sndrec32.exe! No, I am serious! Quite interesting to hear of the challenges of making sure all the old stuff still works with the new code, which presumably is why it takes so long, regression testing.
budgets, ******* managers, marketers etc...they all pull rank on the techies who do the coding.
p.s. just finished watching an interview with an ms chap on the vista audio subsystem...they have a team of 40 guys who have spent the last two years revamping the volume control applet and sndrec32.exe! No, I am serious! Quite interesting to hear of the challenges of making sure all the old stuff still works with the new code, which presumably is why it takes so long, regression testing.
The_Unbeliever
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And they add, which they will call at that time, cool and undocumented features, only to have it later turn around and bite them on their a$$es, like the recent windows vulnerability.