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The employee who installs the latest Vista build at home and squashes the most bugs before Monday will get an extra $500.
Brian Valentine issued the challenge Friday in an e-mail to members of the team working on Vista, the next update of the company's Windows operating system.
The move comes as Microsoft is wrapping up work on a broad test version of Vista, expected by many Windows watchers to be released later this month. Microsoft has said it is on track to deliver a test version to roughly two million users this quarter.
Microsoft is pushing to wrap up development of Vista this year, with a mainstream launch slated for January. The company had long hoped to release it this holiday season, but in March announced that the launch would be delayed.
Valentine's e-mail was noted earlier Friday by Windows enthusiast site ActiveWin.
As bug bounties go, it's small potatoes--though most others are for outsiders who report flaws. In February, VeriSign's iDefense offered to pay $10,000 for reports of flaws that end up with a "critical" severity rating in a Microsoft Security Bulletin. And Mozilla offers $500 and a Mozilla T-shirt to those who find critical security flaws in its products, which include the Firefox Web browser.
CNET News.com's Joris Evers contributed to this report.
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But keep in mind that Vista is pretty much written at this point, there's almost no new code being added, so it's just about cleaning up code already written. If anything, this may be a problem for the next product if it sets a precedent and the developers know it.
But keep in mind that Vista is pretty much written at this point, there's almost no new code being added, so it's just about cleaning up code already written. If anything, this may be a problem for the next product if it sets a precedent and the developers know it.
Monday bonus to employees. If MS open-sourced Vista, ALL of the
bugs would get fixed by Monday.
Monday bonus to employees. If MS open-sourced Vista, ALL of the
bugs would get fixed by Monday.
In this case are bugs widely available or is money too valuable?
In this case are bugs widely available or is money too valuable?
Who would sign up for that?
than 1 bug a weekend so its very cheap labor for MS.
There's 10.000 people working on Vista but that won't make it
faster or better, more the opposite.
Who would sign up for that?
than 1 bug a weekend so its very cheap labor for MS.
There's 10.000 people working on Vista but that won't make it
faster or better, more the opposite.
This is a desperate move by the management and things will just
slow down. If the bounty is only 100$ then there has to be lots of
them, this will be a bug infested Windows.
This is a desperate move by the management and things will just
slow down. If the bounty is only 100$ then there has to be lots of
them, this will be a bug infested Windows.
Even Gates and Embalmer don't have that much.
Even Gates and Embalmer don't have that much.
- similar to another story i heard
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by ackmondual
May 18, 2006 12:21 PM PDT
- A colleague of mine mentioned a story of another co-worker at her old job. He put on his resume that he was responsible for fixing a series of bugs that would've caused millions of $$ of lose. What was omitted was the fact that he was the cause for those series of bugs!!
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