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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).
*** The latest{{when}} Service Pack for Vista is pretty much rock solid. All of those nagging bugs are gone and it just ''never crashes''. The only problem is that it was released on the verge of Windows 7... which is essentially Vista with said service pack and a new taskbar. In fact the whole reason for Windows 7 was to get rid of the Vista name and start with a clean review slate after they fixed all the errors.
* This is pretty much the case with ''any'' operating systems keeping up to the evolution of hardware. Sometimes developers can't simply make new drivers for new hardware (i.e. due to change of paradigm in hardware design), which means the developers must alter the core (the "kernel") of the OS itself. This is especially <s> [[Egregious]] </s> noticeable with open source OSes such as [[UNIX|Linux and the BSDs]], that requires you to [[Our Souls Are Different|update what is basically the soul of the system]] (not as painful nor as dangerous as it sounds).
** Debian, a Linux distribution, has an ''unstable'' branch that is ''meant'' to be this. Almost all packages are first uploaded to ''unstable'', which contains the latest bleeding-edge versions of all software, before they enter the ''testing'' distribution, which, in time, becomes the next stable release.
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