We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead - The Old New ThingThe history of defect tracking in the Windows team goes back to Windows 1.0, which used a text file. After Windows 1.01 released, a bunch of people in the apps division got together and threw together a bug tracking database. Because hey, a database, wouldn’t that be neat? The name was chosen by vote among the team, and the selected name was RAID, which is the name of a brand of insecticide whose
