DANA SUTTON No, you're absolutely right, at least as far as Apple goes (I don't know enough to talk about Intel). Apple follows a deliberate corporate policy of "constant beta," where it puts out an OS much sooner than it otherwise could and follows that up with a steady stream of bugfixes, security patches, and versioned upgrades to fix and improve the original release. That puts each and every Mac user into position of being a beta tester. You, my friend, are squawking about the downside, and it is a real one, my heart goes out to you. But think about the upside: we get to offer our input into the evolving product (think of the translucent menu bar and Stacks). Still don't like it? Then consider the alternative, the "get it perfect the first time around" strategy. That's the Microsoft way. But a.) things work very much slower in the Windows world and b.) this being an imperfect world, they never can get it quite right anyway and then it takes them far longer to put out a fix. I don't know about you, but personally I vote for the Apple way, even if I admit we all get bit by it every now and then.
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