That is true, but the road to a smoothly running in-place upgrade is too long to travel in just a handful of months before Windows 10 is to be released.
When asked, years ago, why Windows crashed so often compared to Macs the answer from Microsoft was that they had no control over the environment. Anyone with a screwdriver could build a Windows PC. Anyone with a little knowledge could write an application or driver. Just a couple of years ago Microsoft was out doing a big presentation out here on Windows 7 at the time and touted that the number 1 cause of all of the bug checks being sent to them was faulty 3rd party drivers. This is the same thing. As John pointed out in the closed system that Apple has it’s still hit or miss on a successful in-place upgrade of iOS. Microsoft does not have that advantage. I’m working with hardware from 2 of the biggest names in the market and I’m getting a greater than 70% failure rate. That’s a complete failure of the upgrade process. (The rollback has worked flawlessly.) The machines that have successfully completed the upgrade are left in shambles with numerous broken applications. It does me no good if after an upgrade to have to repair/reinstall or somehow fix who knows how many applications. Michael Niehaus said it at TechEd Europe. Microsoft knows where the Windows “parts” are and know how to swap them out. The problem is that too often 3rd parties are mucking around with those parts as well. From: Rod Trent <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Monday, December 29, 2014 at 3:55 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [mssms] RE: [ConfigMgrMVPs] Blogpost: Is Intune going to re place Configuration Manager? People tend to forget that Windows 10 is actually still beta and not even close to being finished. From: Marable, Mike<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 3:47 PM To: SMS<mailto:[email protected]> “Windows 10 will change OS and software deployment…” I’m sorry but I’d have to beg to differ. So far I have had little luck with using the in-place upgrade that Microsoft is pushing in the real world. To be honest I’m finding it just as problematic as it was in prior versions of Windows. We may be “old school” on this but when the time comes to migrate from Windows 7 to Windows 10, as it stands right now we’re going to do it the same way we went from XP to Windows 7; using wipe and load task sequences run from SCCM. I would love for all of this to just work and for us to be able to use it. But in healthcare change happens very slowly. Everything has to have a proven track record before we will let patient safety rely on it. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 3:34 PM To: SMS Subject: Re: [mssms] RE: [ConfigMgrMVPs] Blogpost: Is Intune going to re place Configuration Manager? Or… just roll out the pieces Kim believes are missing. Intune is a full Azure service now which means any new feature can be rolled out anytime and can take advantage of Azure power. Windows 10 will change OS and software deployment, btw, so take those off the list. From: Ed Aldrich<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 3:30 PM To: SMS<mailto:[email protected]> I’m betting that the Redmond crowd will be dissecting THAT post for some time trying to figure out how to respond to it in some fashion, somewhere!!! Wow! Ed Aldrich | Solutions Engineer 1E | Empowering Efficient IT Mobile: (401) 924-2293 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>| www.1e.com<http://www.1e.com/> [Description: Description: cid:[email protected]] Ent Cli Mgmt (2003-2014) Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kim Oppalfens Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 2:40 PM To: '[email protected]<mailto:'[email protected]>' Subject: [mssms] [ConfigMgrMVPs] Blogpost: Is Intune going to replace Configuration Manager? Hi All, I’ve expressed these views a couple of times already to colleague mvp’s and people interested in hearing my opinion. It tends to be fragmented in talks though, so I decided to put my thoughts into writing, and dedicate a blog post to it. 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