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One of the commenter's, said to do a clean install of Linux for each new release. I am going to have to disagree on that one. Once, you got your system like you want it regardless of what operating system you have---you don't want to change it ever 5 minutes. On ubuntu and other flavors the software updater downloads new version automatically. So no point in doing a clean install of those.
Microsoft doesn't rush things unless it is an out of bounds patch. They do a security release at the minimum on a certain Tuesday or Wednesday each month. That not really the cause of the problem, they may have laid off people that possibly checks the updates.
If you research allot of them they have more to do with upgrading to 8 than serving 7
Recommended and Optional updates should be avoided at all costs or at the very least looked at much closer to see what the heck they are for,
Most are a waste of space.
Actually, if you consider how many combinations of software and hardware that can exist, it's a bloody miracle M$ doesn't have far more problems with updates than they do.And when they do have a problem, even though a large number of people are affected, those affected are a small to tiny percentage of the total number of people receiving the updates. Also keep in mind that M$ operating systems are huge, complicated programs.
That's it for me. No more auto updates. Just spent most of my night fixing their mess again. Update leaves my laptop in such a mess it won't even reopen Windows! Nice going, Microsoft!
Yep well you have to wonder how long it will take before something like that happens to you/ me...
I personally hate surprises on either Tuesday mornings or Wednesday mornings neither are a good time
I don't get surprises. I have my updates set to notify me when they are available, then wait until Saturday morning to download and install them. That way, M$ has had plenty of time to identify a problem and pull the offending update.
Very good+++ points.
Updates always working fine here on my machines, both 7 & 8. But am making a os partition image before applying anything, safety comes first after reading about the real problems some experience, but can't remember ever having to revert to a previous image due to any MS update.