>But are you saying that you manufacture hardware, and that you test every >function of every hardware component that you purchase from third parties? >Because that is what we're talking about. If so, your company is one in a >million and I salute you.
See, that is the corruptive result of MS's business practices. Our WFBs now want to declare normal engineering testing procedures to be an act worthy of sainthood. No! Companies that fail to do due diligence and construct grossly defective products ought to be held up to scorn (and probably sued out of existance). They do not get to point the finger at somebody else. When the gear shift knob breaks off in your car you don't go to the dealer expecting to get a note that says: here is the address of the company in Nanjing that made the knob, you go contact them. The company that assembles a product is responsible for every part in that product. Engineers are taught to test every component and to test these components at extremes that well exceed normal operating parameters. They even study the variation from part to part and won't do business with erratic suppliers. Such evaluation is a normal part of the product design process. When a bridge falls down and families are crushed to death the bridge builder cannot claim they are absolved because it said "concrete" on the package, but it really contained silly putty. They must test the concrete both before they use it and after it has been poured. This is normal engineering practice. I think that the reason the WFBs want to banish such responsibility is that such an evaluation of MS's own products would be so wanting. They do not want IT managers to evaluate products on their consistent quality or lack there of. I fully understand that business motivation, but it is wrong. This is the kind of irresponsibility that lead to our current economic debacle. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
