MS: One set of bugs cause 80% of errors
Reuters | at | by Mike
One percent of the bugs in Microsoft's software cause half of all reported errors with 20 percent of bugs responsible for 80 percent of the mistakes, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday. But Ballmer said Microsoft was arming itself with better information to help develop its software, by building error reporting features into its products.
Engineers use the reports, sent in a short burst over the Internet, to track software bugs and provide a fix, he said. "We've been amazed by the patterns revealed in the error reports that customers are sending us," Ballmer wrote. "About 20 percent of the bugs cause 80 percent of all errors, and -- this is stunning to me -- one percent of bugs cause half of all errors."