They've done things quick instead of well. This has served them well, and during the time microsoft has been around, most of the competitors that have reversed that equation have gone by the wayside.
I vaguely recall they were in the same boat decades ago with the win 3.x and win 9x - windows was a virus and bluescreen laden garbage heap. I'm not sure what OS they started really cleaning up and validating the API calls. I think windows 2000 was a major step away from shared memory space to cure some of it.
They've done things quick instead of well. This has served them well, and during the time microsoft has been around, most of the competitors that have reversed that equation have gone by the wayside.
I vaguely recall they were in the same boat decades ago with the win 3.x and win 9x - windows was a virus and bluescreen laden garbage heap. I'm not sure what OS they started really cleaning up and validating the API calls. I think windows 2000 was a major step away from shared memory space to cure some of it.