Microsoft pushes 'Watson' for ISV apps
ENT News | at | by Mike
Software developers are in the crosshairs of Microsoft's "Watson" initiative, now that the company is claiming success with the automated customer feedback program in improving the quality of its own software and third-party hardware drivers.
Watson is the initiative behind the pop-up windows that appear and offer to send an error report to Microsoft every time an application crashes on Windows XP. Microsoft claims the initiative has allowed it to focus its attention on fixing the bugs in its own software that cause the highest percentage of systems crashes.