[dayglored]

This comes as no real surprise -- Microsoft has to make a determination of whether any given flaw is worth the effort to fix. They've been doing that all along, of course.

This (draft) document is merely an explanation of their rationale.

But it's rather interesting to see what they consider worth fixing, and NOT worth fixing.

[dayglored]

Software flaws: To Fix, or Not To Fix ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[Red Badger]

They are not ‘flaws’, they are FEATURES!..........................

[mountainlion]

They want to leave doorways open for the hackers.

My cure for windows especially 8.1 is MacBook Pro

[Leaning Right]

This Microsoft document should be of some interest to liability lawyers. A company is well-aware of a product defect, but decides not to fix this defect. The defect later causes a consumer a financial loss.

I suppose buried somewhere in the software agreement is a clause absolving Microsoft of any such liability. But to deliberately ignore a known flaw, I don’t know if such a clause would hold water.

(I hope not as Bill Gates and Friends...not my favorite people.)

[VeniVidiVici]

I worked on Win95 with development at MS.

We released with 40,000 bugs. Obviously not ALL were very important.