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Does distributed development affect software quality?: an empirical case study of Windows Vista

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Volume 52 , Issue 8 (August 2009) table of contents
A Blind Person's Interaction with Technology

SECTION: Research highlights table of contents

Pages 85-93

Year of Publication: 2009

ISSN:0001-0782

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Christian Bird	University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
Nachiappan Nagappan	Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
Premkumar Devanbu	University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
Harald Gall	University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Brendan Murphy	Microsoft Research, Cambridge, England

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