Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible

# Summary Despite perceptions that software quality has declined, historical software was actually far worse, plagued by frequent crashes, buggy device drivers, and data loss due to lack of autosave features. While modern software may have more bugs due to increased production volume, older systems like Windows had a "quality floor" imposed by the necessity of shipping working software on physical media, yet still experienced catastrophic failures like the Blue Screen of Death that made computing unreliable. The author argues that nostalgia for past software is misplaced, as today's software, despite its flaws, is substantially more stable than the computer experience of the 1990s and 2000s.