Editing Windows Server 2003 (section)

==Development==
Windows Server 2003 was the first [[Microsoft Windows]] version which was thoroughly subjected to semi-automated [[software testing|testing]] for [[software bug|bug]]s with a software system called PREfast<ref name="forbes.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2003/0526/147_2.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040224104127/http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2003/0526/147_2.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 24, 2004|title=The Exterminator – Forbes.com|work=forbes.com}}</ref> developed by [[computer scientist]] Amitabh Srivastava at [[Microsoft Research]].<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2003/0526/147.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040102183707/http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2003/0526/147.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 2, 2004|title=The Exterminator – Forbes.com|work=forbes.com}}</ref> The automated bug checking system was first tested on [[Windows 2000]] but not thoroughly.<ref name="forbes.com"/> Amitabh Srivastava's PREfast found 12% of Windows Server 2003's bugs, the remaining 88% being found by human [[computer programmer]]s.<ref name="forbes.com"/> Microsoft employs more than 4,700 programmers who work on Windows, 60% of whom are [[software tester]]s<ref name="ReferenceA"/> whose job is to find bugs in Windows [[source code]]. Microsoft co-founder [[Bill Gates]] stated that Windows Server 2003 was Microsoft's "most rigorously tested software to date."<ref name="ReferenceA" />