Please tell me you're joking! Why is it always the testers fault? It seems to me that while developers, requirements managers and project managers are deemed to be human and therefore fallible - hence the existence of the QA department in the first place, testers have to be God-like and incapable of oversight. Last time I checked the QA team I was part of had introduced 0% of all defects in the application under test.

I recently worked with a Candian developer that was taking time out from work to travel through the Americas. When I quizzed him more closely on his route, it was pretty much from the southern tip all the way up to the Mexico / USA border. He was then going to catch a plane and fly over the USA and tour around Canada. Doesn't sound so stupid to me! Ian Partridge

It sounds like you're all complaining about trivial things. At least you get Vista to run for more than a few minutes at a time without some sort of error occurring. Some of you even talk about your apps being slower than when they were on XP. Consider yourselves fortunate that you get Vista to run / install apps. That's one up on me. I'm considering on requesting a percentage of the profits of Vista sales after they release SP1 as I've single handedly contributed several hundred error reports to MS (obviuosly when the Error Reporting tool is reporting to me that it too has encountered an error and needs to close). I'd get the latest updates, but that too has decided to stop working. Still, I've got a pretty coaster for my coffee now! Ian Partridge