VS Service Packs are too far apart

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Brannon

I hit crash bugs on a regular basis. I had them before and after the
VS2005 SP1 beta. They usually cost me a few minutes of work, and I
always report them. I would think those would be critical enough to
cause MS to release VS service packs on a regular (say monthly) basis.
What's up with the 2-3 year span between VS service pack releases?
 
Brannon,

I can't speak for MS, but there have been a few discussions about this
on their part. My recollection is that they spread them apart because of
the massive number of testing scenarios that they have to run it through
(the fixes, the internationalization issues, etc, etc).

Hope this helps.
 
Brannon said:
I hit crash bugs on a regular basis. I had them before and after the
VS2005 SP1 beta. They usually cost me a few minutes of work, and I
always report them. I would think those would be critical enough to
cause MS to release VS service packs on a regular (say monthly) basis.
What's up with the 2-3 year span between VS service pack releases?
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You're not alone, and they come with excuses like it's so hard to
test. Nothing takes 3 years to test, so must be something else. My wild
guess is that any perfectly running system of version vN doesn't really
trigger a user to upgrade to a system running version vN+1.

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