Updating Windows has become a bad joke. I can install three Linux distributions in the same time it takes me to make a single serious Windows upgrade. And, when I’m done with the Linux installations, I know they’ll work. With Windows? You’re taking your computer’s life in your hands with even a Patch Tuesday security update.
As Computerworld’s resident Windows wizard Woody Leonhard points out, unless you want to be an unpaid Windows beta tester, never let Windows automatically patch your system. For more than three years now, upgrading Windows has just meant asking for trouble.
