Windows Vista - reproducing 56.81 Shakespeares... - Operating Systems are complex and will always have bugs

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Windows has been around for quite a bit, and been thru several revisions.

The Vista edition, like the Concord, looked impressive, but at times had difficulty flying.

Here Vista is trying to show some volume controls (with a pretty basic hardware setup), and running into some difficulties:



What causes this bug - who knows, and I suppose, who cares. Some kind of erroneous while condition, which can cause any imperative program to enter an inefficient, repetitive  state.

Given the complexity of a piece of software such as Windows Vista (50 million lines of source code!).

To put this in perspective, and at risk of comparing the art of C++ programming to that of 16th century literature (though at least in terms of age and fragility, there may be parallels), the entire works of the Great Bard (he of Hamlet) number 0.88 million lines. So we may reason that Windows Vista could have been composed by 56.81 Shakespeares.

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