Microsoft: Much ado about nothing

Back in the day of advent of Internet, software had been robust. All of infrequent bug reports could have been submitted over the official 1-800 line. This changed rapidly after about 2010 when Internet became omnipresent and mature. Companies like MS created bug trackers. This was the beginning of the end.

'Build them and they will come'. So, they built bug trackers. Now that they have bug trackers they have to produce some results. Results are measured in bug reports. So, they need more bug reports. But many bug reports are bad, so what do we do with bad bug reports? We close them as invalid. Bingo!

Notice that 100% of names of responders to bug reports in MS bug trackers are Chinese. Chinese are communists. Communists prefer to pretend to work rather than work. So, we have pretend-work:

• Investigating and fixing bugs is hard, and the success or failure criteria is immediately obvious to the user.
• Pretending to work on vulnerabilities is easy because no one will ever be able to tell whether it was fixed or not.

And so we have perpetual work on vulnerabilities but no bugs ever fixed. Congratualtions, Western civilization: you are feeding a monster!

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