Perpetual Beta: Difference between revisions

While this usually applies to [[Real Life]] software and [[Video Games]], it can just as easily apply to complex machines and other devices in works of fiction. See [[Beta Baddie]] and [[Psycho Prototype]] for this taken to a more dangerous level, and [[Super Prototype]] for a subversion of sorts, though they sometimes have problems.

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* Microsoft is often accused of this with varying and [[Your Mileage May Vary|subjective]] levels of truth. With its monopoly weakened by users outright refusing to adopt Windows Vista when XP still works just fine, and the increasing popularity and variety of alternatives, the company might be starting to clean up its act. They have been through more than one [[Dork Age]] before, though. (see: Windows ME)

** Although, Service Pack 1 fixed a bunch of problems with Vista (which is why most businesses wait for the first Service Pack before adopting a new Microsoft OS).

* ''[[RHDE]]'' is open source. Even after the game goes gold as part of a collaborative homebrew multicart scheduled for sometime in 2014, a second version has been planned with a bigger memory to hold the features that didn't fit.

 

 

* Pretty much all of Tony Stark's ''[[Iron Man]]'' suits seem to be constantly modified, repaired, rebuilt and replaced, which is handy for writers who [[Depending on the Writer|have trouble keeping his powers straight]].