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by Anonymous User on Tue Mar 21, 2006 at 10:21:09 AM PDT

Software complexity plus the interactions of software packages with OS, utility and other applications all lead to more opportunities for bugs.  The state of the art in software design quality control has not kept up with the pace of increased complexity.  Brute force debugging by herds of QC staff is not sufficient.  Thus, bugs proliferate.  

On the other hand the bugs in prior generations of software were dealt with more effectively.  Simply stated, the pathetic decline in the quality of software support is, in my view, the major culprit.  The number or severity of bugs is not the issue.  Without a sufficient number of flyswatters, the infestations will remain intolerable!  (Where's that can of Flit when ya need it?)


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