It’s an all-too-common outrage for computer users: Out of the blue, an infamous “fatal error” message appears, or the machine simply stops dead. The angst that such software bugs cause may never be tallied, but analysts have now estimated the financial impact of those failures. Because so much software sold to industry has errors built into it, the U.S.
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