Agree, you need to have some acceptance criteria and process where you pay for functionality that you have deemed acceptable. The product specs and so one would form part of that criteria along with any testing cases to support it.

Once past that stage any further bugs that come to light after acceptance is a paid for change request as you've accepted the unit of work and have to have taken responsibility for it being deemed correct.

Software development is like creating a prototype for something new every time, if it wasn't you'd just buy or subscribe to an existing service. It's the nature of the beast that bugs will crop up that might not even be captured until hit by an edge case that the user creates no matter what spec etc have been written.

Finally you saw what happened at Jurassic Park when the 'I won't pay for bugs no matter what' line is taken :)

I know a lot of people that never do any of the things you've mentioned, they're happy with what a Chromebook offers

Got data to back this up as we're moving away from IE as the standard browser to using Chrome with auto update turned on. Decoupling the browser from the OS is very much a step in the right direction.

Traditional corporate IT, especially those that worship Microsoft forget that they were once IT shops and not Microsoft shops.

And yet having a modern always to date browser on the desktop is exactly what my enterprise wants, we keep IE around for legacy apps like the one you've mentioned.

The last version of flight simulator still has new 3rd party products coming out for it and from what I understand was making MS a profit. You can't buy brand loyality like that.

And for say 99% of the time your approach is correct and then there is the 1% of the time that the entrepreneur comes up with something that disrupts an entire industry and the Managers are unable to compete and adapt.

Managers can manage sustainable innovation fine and entrepreneurs are fantastic for disruptive innovation which in practically every case managers will kill. You need both if you want to excel before a startup comes along and kills your business.

The marketplace is the only place where success or failure will be defined so release something there and iterate.

Companies in China do it a lot whereas in the West we try and get something perfect before release. Magazines are the exception as it is often cheaper to launch than to do the research to see if it would succeed or not.

Would win, else just go Play EVE Online as that has the immersion only one universe populated with players can bring.

Fantastic, I'm off to start a cloud hosting service outside the US as the government just killed their industry dead!

Hint to cloud industry: use your money to buy some laws in your favour.

So money can be spent on innovation rather than lawyers?

No seriously, modern Iran is the result of western interference, go read it up.

...is not.

In fact at my company we basically switched our corporate browser to Chrome because it is platform agnostic as opposed to IE which is.

Your's wasn't the only one they had!

Firelance and Night Rider are still two of my favorite books.