> I don't care how they measure it.  Microsoft doesn't have enough
employees
> and/or contractors to finish that job properly in one calendar
month.

If I think back to the early days of MVS development, roughly one APAR
in twenty had some sort of security implication.  Think how many there
have been over the years and how many lines of code there are in MVS -
and MVS's interfaces were carefully defined and architected.  A LOT of
Microsoft's interfaces are deliberate holes built across systems to
expedite shipment of some feature or other.

One of the aspects of open source software that I suspect truly
frightens Microsoft is the continual peer reviewing that goes on.
Published and thus criticised code is the strongest of all.

--
  Phil Payne
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