Publicly available software suffers from the fact that millions and millions of people can poke and prod at the software in ways that the manufacture can't due to resource and time constraints driven by the need to generate revenue.
Microsoft runs their software through multiple code scanners looking for weakneses. Developers do unit testing, and then there is acceptance testing. Microsoft conducts internal penetration tests on their software. Microsoft hires 3rd parties to conduct penetration tests on their software. Large corporations conduct internal penetration tests on Exchange, and hire 3rd party companies to conduct penetration tests on Exchange, just to be sure. Governments conduct penetration tests on Exchange.
A lot of people have been poking at Exchange for years, and years, and years, and this bug was just discovered, and it's been present in the code base for at least 7 years, I'd say that's pretty damn good, it seems like a hardened product to me, not a slipshod product as you suggest.
You are so funny. First you complain that Microsoft has no incentive to deliver quality software, then you complain that they can't delivery quality software quickly.
I guess they would have been better off not bother to conduct all the testing necessary to ensure that they didn't fix one problem and create two more.
Microsoft runs their software through multiple code scanners looking for weakneses. Developers do unit testing, and then there is acceptance testing. Microsoft conducts internal penetration tests on their software. Microsoft hires 3rd parties to conduct penetration tests on their software. Large corporations conduct internal penetration tests on Exchange, and hire 3rd party companies to conduct penetration tests on Exchange, just to be sure. Governments conduct penetration tests on Exchange.
A lot of people have been poking at Exchange for years, and years, and years, and this bug was just discovered, and it's been present in the code base for at least 7 years, I'd say that's pretty damn good, it seems like a hardened product to me, not a slipshod product as you suggest.
You are so funny. First you complain that Microsoft has no incentive to deliver quality software, then you complain that they can't delivery quality software quickly.
I guess they would have been better off not bother to conduct all the testing necessary to ensure that they didn't fix one problem and create two more.