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Subject:Re: metrics From:Steve Fouts <sfouts -at- ELLISON -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 8 Aug 1994 09:22:42 CDT
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|} M>I have
|} M>heard that Microsoft charges the TW department for each call Support
|} M>takes. I don't know how well this works.
|}
|} I hope they differentiate between software problems and document
|} problems. Overall, their documentation is good, except where they
|} happily tell you about features that don't work. Most of my calls to
|} software companies are because of program flaws, not because the
|} documentation didn't cover something.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean, Barb, but in my book, if I
happily tell your customer about a feature that doesn't work, that's
a document flaw. ``C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute,'' as they
say, ``It's worse than a crime, it's a mistake!''
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