This is genius:

A top Microsoft engineer on Friday set out a weekend challenge to the Windows Vista development team: Find and fix a bug in the current code and earn US$100.

The employee who squashed the most bugs before Monday in the US was promised a US$500 prize.

It’s about time. I had a conversation with a MS security leader about this years ago, and he gave me all kinds of reasons why they couldn’t do it. Of course my proposal was to pay them something like $10,000/bug (like iDefense), although more like $10 million/bug is more representive of what each significant bug costs MS.

It looks like this is just a temporary program, although I don’t know why the couldn’t make it permanent.

Bounty for Vista coders who squish bugs at home [zdnet australia] [via Microsoft-Watch]

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