Today was patch day for World of Warcraft.  Now most people complain about patch day because it means extra downtime (and Blizzard, 3 weeks of extended downtime in a row?  Give me a break).  I dread patch day because it means several days of troubleshooting the addins that I have come to depend on.  Now, this process became much easier once I realized that MazzleUI was dead and switched to an a la cart plan, but still patch days are tough.

I wonder what the world would be like if Microsoft had the same attitude towards breaking changes in their APIs.  Sure, there would be a lot of pissed off people, but couldn't they move much quicker if they didn't have to worry quite so much about breaking applications?