On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:51:20 -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:

On 11 Oct 2012 15:33:10 GMT, "ray" wrote in article
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:57:05 -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:

On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:09:05 +0100, "Bob Henson"
wrote in article ...

Broken before it starts! Not yet on the market and the first major
fix is ready.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10..._8_rtm_update/

This is not a Service Pack. It is just a handful of updates - and as
I recall, there were a hand full of updates for Windows 7 shortly
after release, as with Windows Vista and XP as well, so this just
means they are getting a bit better at delivering updates.

As to "broken before it starts", name a single modern OS that doesn't
release patches and fixes on a regular schedule, often shortly after
the OS is released.

Debian Stable. It has been thoroughly tested by the time it is
released. Of course there are security updates as the issues are
detected.

I said "modern"... ;-)

Quantify it however you want, but there are certainly levels of
useability. Years ago I learned never to install any version x.0 of an OS
from DEC - for the simple reason that there were too many bugs to make it
really useable in a scientific setting. I have yet to see MS release an
OS in which the initial offering was anything I would consider to be much
better than a beta test release.