Two Patch Policy.

Even though they got lucky with the first one.

this is what I think the board meeting sounded like:

"let's release it, regardless of problems or bugs. We'll need to release one patch straight out of the box, problems we'll have fixed by ship dates, and then take a few months to give basically the only real patch content. Then we'll say that we've already released two patches and are bound by this rule. It's perfect."

lame.