Re:Feeling kinda good about it (Score 1)

monthS should be "month" singular. Microsoft may or may not hire poor programmers. There are a number of things that combine to get the end result of shoddy apps from microsoft. 1. The developers cannot interact with eachother! They must develop their portion independantly without seeing what they are interacting with. This leads to bugs where the interaction occurs... some things are perfectly stable solutions except when this other app is doing THIS otherwise perfectly stable action. 2. Memory is STILL shared between apps. 3. They push to market, and their beta program is a joke. They actually expect YOU to PAY THEM, to find bugs in their software. Because they push to market, they beta their software in a state it should still be considered alpha, and they final it once it reaches beta or near beta quality. 4. They severely stunt themselves by coding in a closet, if they don't even let the programmers see what eachother are doing, they are hardly going to allow massive review of the code. I'm sorry but 10,000 programmers reviewing the code is going to be at least 1,000 GOOD programmers, and 1,000 GOOD programmers and 9,000 average programmers are going to spot problems alot quicker than ONE programmer whether that one is poor, average or good, especially if he/she the one who wrote it to begin with trying to avoid any problems during the writing!!! 5. I don't think the programmers ARE encourage to try to avoid bugs to begin with at microsoft. They almost couldn't be. It reminds me of typing class, "type as fast as you can, don't worry about typos, it's faster to go back and correct them afterward instead of as you go"... in programming you better correct them as you go, and go back over it afterward ANYWAY and have another few thousand programmers go over it on top of yourself.