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From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: RHIDE and WIN2k Pro!?
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:15:52 GMT
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 05:50:27 +0600 (LKT), Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel
<kalum AT lintux DOT cx> wrote:

>On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, The awesome and feared ^Hawk^ commented thusly,
>
>> On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 08:24:41 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
>> <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>> 
>> >> Do anyone know whether it will be fixed soon?
>> >Fixed by whom?  If you mean Microsoft, I'm not even sure they acknowledge 
>> >the problem, let alone care about it.  They are the only ones who can 
>> >really fix this.
>> 
>> On http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/12054.html i've found that:
>> 
>> "SP1 corrects a 'large number' of setup bugs, 35 access violation
>> errors, five memory leaks, 12 stop errors and some security issues.
>> Rabid reports of 65,000 bugs in the core OS should be disregarded as
>> the majority of these are vital issues such as 'Microsoft' being spelt
>> incorrectly in a number of dialogue boxes."
>
>Yeah, right...well we already know how honest and truthful cnd consistent
>Microsoft are with there statements.

Or how they intentionally didn't use a spell checker so they could
inflate their bug count and claim how thorough their testing
procedures were: "We used 2 testers for each coder and found 65,535
bugs!  No wait, we found more; that's just the maximum size of a
Microsoft BugBase database."

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