Microsoft touching up Windows 8 to address gripes

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56. "Anything resembling a problem can be patched in the update, or rather infinitely patched"

Exactly what all linux distros do. If you think Microsoft doing this is a bad thing, I don't know what to say; it's what all OS developers do, as a matter of course. I have a Ubuntu update waiting to be started as I type this, probably for installed packages that I either rarely use or are dependencies for packages I do use... and linux updates happen with dismal regularity. But, they're also necessary, for security and stability reasons, so I just shrug, hit the button, and that's that.

Really, though, what do you expect? No software developer under the sun can anticipate or code for all of the possible ways installed hardware and software may be in conflict for any given user except Apple's no-you-can't-do-that, our-way-or-nothing approach, and few are willing to accept that (which is one reason Apple's market share is so much smaller and priced so much higher). It's just something users of real operating systems (which OSX/iOS are not; if you want *nix, USE *nix, NOT Apple's OS, dammit) have to accept if they want to actually use the power of the hardware they have.

And really- would you want an OS that rarely has updates and patches, and have to deal with problems that you know will rarely, if ever, be solved? That's just asking for trouble!