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A statistical analysis of bugs in Windows Vista
Saturday, July 8th, 2006
At this point in time, if you were interested in trying out Windows Vista Beta 2, then you definitely 
have already. Though some of us don’t realize it right away, Microsoft has two goals in mind when it releases a public beta: give the tech community a preview of the new operating system, and more importantly, gather massive amounts of bugs and feedback about the new OS.
Focusing on the second goal, customer feedback, one way Microsoft allows testers to report bugs is through the Microsoft Connect website. Besides reporting, testers are also allowed to view, validate, and search for issues. The other night, Robert McLaws of Longhorn Blogs was viewing and commenting on some bugs when he decided that he’d like to see a statistical analysis of the some 28,700 Vista bugs in the system. Over four and a half hours, McLaws manually added every bug posted on Connect to an Excel 2007 spreadsheet, and he discovered some fantastic trends.
Once McLaws removed 1,072 duplicate items, he started exhuming statistics from the raw data. Some of his intriguing findings include…. M-Dollar: A statistical analysis of bugs in Windows Vista
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