Interesting link, Alex, but there are some seriously weak arguments in that article. It's not really well written and thought out. This was a classic which made me stop reading and discard the rest of the article:
"For example, as of September 9, 2002, there are 19 security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer [pivx.com]. (On August 8, 2002, there were 22, so some progress is being made.) This is a terrible record for a company that has $40 billion in the bank. Obviously, with that kind of money, Microsoft could fix the bugs if it wanted to fix them. Since the bugs are very public and Microsoft has the money, it seems reasonable to suppose that top management at Microsoft has deliberately decided that the bugs should remain, at least for now."
The author assumes such a simple corrolation between the amount of "money" a company has "in the bank" and the amount of bugs in one of it's products shows some serious lack of misunderstanding in product development and management. And the simplistic reference between "money in the bank" and Microsoft makes me think this guy doesn't have much of a clue about the way a business is run, either.
- wil
"For example, as of September 9, 2002, there are 19 security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer [pivx.com]. (On August 8, 2002, there were 22, so some progress is being made.) This is a terrible record for a company that has $40 billion in the bank. Obviously, with that kind of money, Microsoft could fix the bugs if it wanted to fix them. Since the bugs are very public and Microsoft has the money, it seems reasonable to suppose that top management at Microsoft has deliberately decided that the bugs should remain, at least for now."
The author assumes such a simple corrolation between the amount of "money" a company has "in the bank" and the amount of bugs in one of it's products shows some serious lack of misunderstanding in product development and management. And the simplistic reference between "money in the bank" and Microsoft makes me think this guy doesn't have much of a clue about the way a business is run, either.
- wil