Here's a blip from the Oregon Computer Consultant's organization. I see
no reason to doubt their objectivity.
"Updating to Windows 10 - NO!
At meeting of computer consultants on Oct 27 we discussed windows 10
updates. - Not clean installs but updates from 7 or 8.1 to 10. Every
consultant recommended
waiting. Despite that, many had tested the update on their own
non-crucial systems. Also, some clients had updated accidentally or
against advice or demanded
the consultants update them.
The consultants had experience with 33 update attempts. 11 failed. Most
failures could be reversed and returned to their previous condition, but
some lost
their computers completely. This isn't a large sample, and computer
consultants might not have heard from clients who updated successfully,
so my guess
is that much less than 33% fail. Probably more like 10% or 15% and of
those probably 80% can return to their old operating system and continue
to run fine,
but it still seems crazy to do this with an important machine.
Furthermore, possible that if you aren't getting the latest versions of
all your software,
you could have some incompatibility there.
Tech support centers say that the problems caused by the Windows 10
update are double that of most other Windows operating system upgrades.
This is probably
not because the upgrade process is worse, but because people are being
forced to do it.
Wait a few more months before you succumb to the Borg."
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