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Really?[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#6)
by Anonymous User on Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 11:29:11 AM PDT

Oh, really? Just like a Web browser, right? A great convenience to add to the operating system -- I agree.

It's a shame adding something like that causes anti-trust lawsuits. Damn.

You users are quite hypocrites, really. Only one perspective -- everything should magically just work just because you need it to work. As a software developer, I suggest you consider that the people who write software don't have the capability to simply shit code out of their asses on a daily basis, and they don't intend for it to not work with other software. It's really quite frustrating to have users like you -- who clearly don't understand either side of the spectrum, the manufacturer's or the third party's -- thinking that you have a great solution for the world's computing problems.

Consider someone besides yourself, next time.

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Sh*t Code[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#11)
by Anonymous User on Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 12:42:09 PM PDT

...don't have the capability to simply shit code out of their asses on a daily basis...

What? I thought that's what Microsoft developers did on a regular basis..

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Customers are right to expect software to work[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#17)
by Anonymous User on Wed Jul 16, 2008 at 11:09:54 AM PDT

Ummm... as a software developer I'm of the opinion that software really should just work, just like cars should turn when you turn the steering wheel, and a bowl of soup in a restaurant should not contain a fly.

But in the real world, bugs happen, cars are sometimes defective, and flies do occaisionally land in bowls of soup.  The important things are (a) to make rapid and effective restitution to the customer, whether this means a work-around or a patch release, a new car or a fresh bowl of soup and a complimentary bottle of wine.  And (b) to improve the processes that allowed the bug to slip through in the first place.

YES bugs will happen, but as soon as we say "well that's just the way it is" and accept the existance of bugs we're on a downward slope.  And the responsibility doesn't fall entirely on the guy who wrote the code.  Certainly a company the size of Microsoft should have a large QA department, testing not just Windows itself but how Windows interacts with other major software packages - and ZoneAlarm certainly qualifies as one of them.  The objective should be for code released to end-users to be bug-free...  an unachievable objective, maybe, it should be the target nonetheless!

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Eh?[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#26)
by Anonymous User on Fri Jul 18, 2008 at 09:59:30 PM PDT

"As a software developer, I suggest you consider that the people who write software don't have the capability to simply shit code out of their asses on a daily basis."

Strange -- to judge by the quality of the code I've seen that other people wrote, I had gathered that that was precisely the usual process by which most code was produced!


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