Sierra_Dad - 7:17 pm on Jan 13, 2010 (gmt 0)

When you bought from MS, Lotus, Adobe, etc. you were always getting QA tested and vetted software.

That's not quite the same thing. When you got software developed by Microsoft, you had Microsoft's word that it was trusted by Microsoft, not a third party or publisher. I'm sure Droid09 would be happy to tell the market that he checked his own software and deemed it fit for the market.

Back in the days that people bought software in stores, did those stores even try the software they sold most of the time? Not in my experience.