What is wrong with Microsoft? Why can't these people turn out quality software, especially for items that are popular and used frequently? It used to be when I ran Windows Media Player I had trouble working with the Tag Editor. It used to lock-up when I tried to edit the tags on an MP3 music file. In this version of XP Professional on my newly ( Read more... )

Trying to trace out flip-flops, latches, demultiplexers, memory and I/O chip addressing in complex data acquisition and control systems without sufficient design documentation causes headaches for embedded software engineers. Schematics without documentation are like uncommented assembler. It's days like this that I realize why they pay me. Ah ( Read more... )