Historically there's often been a lot of bluster about forcing everyone to the new weird version by this and that date, then backtracking with the dates until t

Historically there's often been a lot of bluster about forcing everyone to the new weird version by this and that date, then backtracking with the dates until the major issues have been resolved with a new major version that reverts the weirdest changes. Microsoft's work on Windows appears a bit random but they seem to have a working failsafe at the executive group (or board or billg?) level. At least eventually.