jimbeetle - 8:57 pm on Apr 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

Microsoft Windows in particular was never really built on good foundations to start with. 3.1 had more bugs ...

Of course! It was based on MS-DOS which IBM had to rewrite after finding a couple of hundred bugs in a couple of thousand lines of assembler.

And good old Bill didn't write the DOS code, he licensed it from another Seattle guy, then sold it for what it was worth -- cheap, under $50 a copy -- when CP/M went for a few hundred.