No other industry I know allows this type of crap. The car industry continues to ditch old styles and update (not every year but on somewhat of a schedule for some companies). You don't continue to remodel a home for years, eventually you level and start over. If you have a good product you can only modify it so long till you make it a bad product. If you start with crap it just goes downhill faster. Design teams leave and the new ones don't always have a full understanding of the prior teams works. It happens everywhere I've seen. You can't just keep adding on without some major reworking and usually a redesign to incorparate the new features and functionality.
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If Microsoft started something from scratch, that'd be significantly worse than their software's current state
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That doesn't make it allright to release a new version every year, call it new and improved, and charge twice as much. Take the time to develope one good product and release it when it's ready.
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Additionally, you're not obligated to use Internet Explorer, or Windows at all.
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No but by shear number of users they have the largest installed base and almost all applications are detailed to their software. Linux is getting better but it's still not a true competitor no matter how much we want it to be. They have almost made themselves the industry standard and I think it needs to be set higher. In the day's of Dos when software went to market it had to work right. If it didn't the product failed and could take the whole company out with it. Now after microsoft decided to make patching software part of life everyone does it. Some games are nearly non-functional at realease and that in not acceptable. Ask anyone how win2k runs without sp1, ask anyone running me at all. Software manufactures didn't have as many variables in the day. You had only so much hardware and you made it run in dos. Life was good. But everyone believes that hot-fixes and patchs are the answer.
NO the answer is don't rush testing. Screw the release date. Just make it work right when I get it. Then I'll be a happy customer and come back for more on my own.