It's not a bug...
..No kudos from BugNet
Since 1994 the editors of BugNet have presented an award to a soft-
ware company for the year's best bug-fix performance. This year the
editors surveyed the software field and scowled in disgust, refusing
to grant any award [10]. "We are in the midst of a PC quality / sup-
port crisis," they declare. Here is one sad tale among many that il-
lustrates the sorry attitude of software companies toward the things
they have wrought and the users who are stuck with them.
Microsoft has a very odd sense of what is and what isn't a
bug. Earlier this year, BugNet discovered a bug in FrontPage
which allowed [a user] to delete his entire hard drive-
including Windows itself-without a clear warning. This
was the single most destructive bug we've ever encountered
... but Microsoft's response was that this was a feature,
not a bug.
[10] http://www.bugnet.com/analysis/no_award.html
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