Microsoft’s Windows Error Reporting tool, Dr. Watson, has been a major force for finding and fixing software bugs and vulnerabilities. National Security Agency has used WER to provide feedback on its efforts to compromise computers. Microsoft estimates that 1 percent of flaws are responsible for half of all crashes. Microsoft found that a bug reported by WER is five times more likely to be fixed than a human fix. Microsoft’s statistical approach to tackling bugs would be hard for most companies to duplicate, expert says.”]
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