One popular phone from Samsung Electronics failed to connect to cellular networks and had bugs in its Android operating system, McCarthy said.

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Coverity's founders, four graduate students from Stanford University and their professor, recently grammar-checked the entire Linux 2.6.9 kernel operating system and found a respectably low 950 bugs in 5.5 million lines.

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With an estimated 50 million or so lines of code in Windows, we can expect the operating system to contain 500, 000 to 1 million bugs.

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