I work with computers and software all day long. I have now, for more than a decade. Individuals and businesses have every excuse under the sun to not do updates and to not have test environments.
The reality is that applying the updates and testing is a fixed cost and can be planned. Repairing and troubleshooting because you don’t have the fixed versions or because you have (fill in the blank) reasons – or because you claim to not know how to do it – costs so much more…
If you want to save time and money and other valuable resources, plan and do it right and do the updates! Cutting corners has limits. You will end up regretting it. Even if you think you’re immune, you will regret it. We in the tech world are not really geniouses when we fix things. We’re simply more patient – with the software, with the computers, with ourselves and with you. Don’t make everyone’s life more difficult. Do the updates!
If you don’t believe me, just ask Matt.
(Yes, I included the rants category here. But this really is not a rant. It is a comment from ground zero.)
P.S. I still say this after spending an extra week working on getting updates applied and having to redo a bunch of work, all this past week. It’s the right thing to do, to put spend that ounce of prevention, even if it feels like a really heavy ounce sometimes.
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