That's One Way to Stamp Out More Vista Bugs

To help incent its own employees to file and fix bugs in Windows Vista, the Microsoft brass is implementing a bounty program, according to one employee. The Windows team will pay employees $100 for each bug file and fixed. And the employee with the most bugs filed and fixed will earn an extra $500. (Thanks to ActiveWin.com for the pointer.)

Posted by Mary Jo Foley on May 12, 2006 5:44 PM

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Xepol :

We'll definitely see a lot of minor, easy bugs fixed this way while the deeper, more complicated bugs get ignored.This policy sends the wrong message. Why would you work on a bug that takes a week to fix when you can fix 12 minor bugs in the same time?If they gave bugs points (harder bugs get more points) and gave rewards based on points and then award prizes to the person with the most bug points we might just see the more important bugs get fixed first.

Posted by Xepol | May 13, 2006 1:29 AM