[thelist] Re: Quality Control, etc. of MS products

[ashok at magicalkenya.com]

In the Nt4 days i would tend to agree with accusations against MS about
poor/lack of  quality control -- but off late (more precisely since win2k
came out) things have  improved noticeably.
take a look at QC at least on the security / vuln front  :

http://online.securityfocus.com/sfonline/vulns/stats.shtml

you will see a very distinct improvement in top vulnerable packages from
the year 2000 to 2001 .
probably one contest where microsoft was happy in not finishing in the top
3 !
though vuln. stats are not ideal measure for quality IMO it is still a very
valid measure....

that  said, microsoft does provide much much better quality in terms of
service and support (especially for presales and demos ) in this part of
the world (east africa) as against companies like IBM and SUN  (which
provide next to nothing in terms of  presales support...) .

A major part of our development (for historical and market reasons) has
been on IBM products - but we are shifting (or would like to shift :) for
quality and support reasons to microsoft products...