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Some of the things that experienced analysts are saying about Beta 2 of Vista are just completely alarming. We know that Windows has always had occasional bugs and blue screens, so those things aren’t new, but even so, the problems in Beta 2 are so significant that it’s been proclaimed as one of the most unstable OS releases from Microsoft at this point in the development cycle in over ten years. If that’s not a sign of things to come, then I don’t know what is.

Microsoft has said that they’ll have it ready by January (or some time around there), but if you acknowledge the comments that are being made, then it’s hard to believe that they’re going to make that ETA in good shape. Nevertheless, I really hope that they can pull it off and prove all of us wrong. In the end, this is an OS that a large number of us are going to have to use for years to come, so it only makes sense that we would want it to be as good as it can be. After all, who wants to tolerate mediocrity?

You’ve likely noticed by now that Microsoft and Apple have different operating system release methods. In line with recent trends, Microsoft has taken the approach of releasing a new OS every few years, and when they do it, they try to do it big. Windows XP was a big change from Windows 2000, and Vista is aiming to stomp all over XP. They may view this constant recreation of their brand as a positive thing, but they could surely learn a thing or two from Apple.

You see, Apple has been very consistent with their releases, and they’ve made about one new release of OS X each year. These timely updates don’t necessarily offer a huge list of new features, but they do help to improve on the original concept of OS X and fix some of the problems that have been experienced by the users. It’s looked about the same since the beginning, but the under the hood tweaks have made it something worth using. They didn’t just give it to us and move onto OS XI, but instead, they’ve made point updates, and this has kept us interested in something that we’ve basically already been using for years. If Microsoft wants to make Vista something worth remembering in a good way, then they’re going to have to stick with it for the long road ahead instead of abandoning it in order to move on to the next version of Windows.