Fewer bugs in computer code is ex-Microsoft engineer's aim "Billionaire software engineer Charles Simonyi, who left Microsoft Corp. to co-found a company called Intentional Software Corp., says the new firm's software-development tools will reduce annoying or even dangerous programming errors -- "bugs," as they're called -- to one in a million. "That's a metaphor, but it will be incredibly weird to have a bug," said Simonyi, 54, in an interview yesterday."