Posted on 09/11/2015 9:18:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
36 = 3.
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Thank you, thank you!! Your post plus the link explains a lot. May I suggust you post the article as a separate FR thread for the benefit of all.
It’s up to you, really. My personal recommendation is to wait at least 6 months. That’s a long enough window to let any development hiccups work themselves out.
This is sage advice for anyone wanting to maintain their sanity with an operating system. There are a multitude of examples one could find online that show that Microsoft updates have had problems in the past. Our corporate update change control processes were changed drastically after an Office update crippled our clients. We went almost a full work day with no email, and people were freaking out. (In retrospect, it's funny how much we rely on email.)
I recommend this same advice for Apple and Google devices as well. Updates are not flawless. The developers are often smart and do their smoke tests and regression testing, but that never accounts for every possible contingency. And if there's one thing I know about clients, they have no problem throwing engineers and admins curveballs when it comes to software support.
I only learned after posting that Microsoft has started pushing these as important updates, not optional updates.
Eventually I will migrate a bunch of computers to Win 10, but I will not permit Microsoft to force me to use version 1.0 of their new operating system. My rule with new versions of Windows is to wait until the first service pack comes out before installing. For Win 10, I will either wait until SP1 arrives, or until the free upgrade offer is about to expire.
Microsoft will support Windows 7 until 2020.
Thank you! For the last few months, I have been getting outrageous data overuse charges. I have broadband wireless and changed from 5 gigs to 10 gigs but I am still going over every month.
I thought it was too much watching of speeches and hearings (I don’t have a TV). At the Verizon Corporate Store in my neighborhood, they said your usage goes way up when you use Facebook.
I just did what you said and hope this money drain stops!
I’m interested in upgrading but I’ve got a crappy DSL connection. If I allow the file “$Windows.~BT” to download can I copy it to a USB drive and use that file to upgrade another PC? Thanks.
I think that each computer's $Windows.~BT file is specific to it, built up over time by some app that MS has downloaded to that computer as an "update."
If that theory is correct, you cannot use the $Windows.~BT file from one computer to upgrade another.
You don't download $Windows.~BT from MS to your computer. You download an app that builds it as an update.
Thanks for the info. Is there a way to pause the download in order to use my bandwidth for something else?
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