Mark Grgurev wrote:John Paines wrote:This is Windows, after all. "Upgrades" often don't go well. Also, privacy concerns with 10.
I've heard so many people say this but I've really never had problems upgrading Windows. Just makes me think people don't know what they're doing.
Said no one ever till it happens to them. A "piss poor release" from MS, pretty much put them on top. Let us use an analogy: "'Better to do and ask forgiveness than to ask permission'"; the MS version, Better to release and beat our competitors than to lose market share - we'll roll-out HOTFIXES as necessary.
As with many things (companies, management decision makers), their *MS* "Risk Management" area assesses the downside vs upside with their crafted algorithms, then pulls the trigger or not.
My IT $.02 says a best practice would be, do NOT upgrade(s) software or hardware, manually or automatically if you are in a valuable project - just complete it. Even having taken the precaution of a backup, archive, "restore" etc., will be a creative distraction and cost you valuable time you need or could be better invested.