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Recent security concerns make us think that everyone is rushing to get the latest operating system (OS) upgrade, but that’s hardly the case. That surprised us. Between Apple and Microsoft, we sometimes see new versions released as fast as every week or two, when security issues exist.
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Erik+Lord wrote
I don't really blame either side when it comes to things breaking like this.
We don't either, Erik, mainly because we have no idea who to blame.
In the early Mac days (1985 to 1993) Janet & I had a regular parade of studio owners coming through our studio asking a plethora of technical questions. We'd frequently hear, "We got the upgrade to ___ (insert name of Adobe app) ____ and now the ___ (insert name of feature) ____ won't work." Better than 90%
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That said however, I maintain my OSs with the latest updates and security patches. One would have to be stupid not to.
Thank you, Nancy-
We could never tell someone, "DON'T get your security updates." Any hardship the end user would suffer would feel like it was riding on our shoulders.
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I normally do the same thing as Nancy, as if my system is running fine, I don't want to mess it up with some new OS. First time I did update my OS, at the recommendation of someone from Adobe, I was not able to use one of my costly programs and had to update it. Not a huge deal, but It was money that I didn't really have to spend. I have updated now to Win 10 due to wanting to keep abreast of things working with Adobe products, and Win 10 kind of takes over updating. One of those updates messed up my profile on both my computers so that I couldn't use the keyboards. I did find a way around this by opening the settings panel and opening the onscreen keyboard, the closing it. Real PIA! after a few more upgrades, that issue passed, and I didn't have to do that anymore.
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There is two parts to Microsoft update service; the updates and the service that controls the updates.
When someone brings the new windows 10 home the very first thing it does on getting a network is goto Microsoft to download | install the latest version of the update service, once done it restarts your system… got a deadline, monitoring a heart or tracking inter ballistic missiles = tuff titties
The user is not asked or given an option to save before this restart
Never do system critical things on a new windows 10 (like new firmware) or this restart can do irreversible damage
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There's a difference between the Home and Pro editions.
With the Win 10 Pro edition you can hold off all updates for many weeks if you're in the middle of something. And it never restarts until you let it - this can also be set at a predetermined time. You always have time to save. I've used Win 10 Pro for about a half year now and find the whole update regime very streamlined and easy to deal with.
The Home edition pretty much updates on its own, although you always get ample advance warning before any restart. It doesn't suddenly pull the rug from under you.
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https://forums.adobe.com/people/D+Fosse wrote
There's a difference between the Home and Pro editions.
Thank you, "D."
It's important to point out enterprise configuration varies from the home version which the consumer encounters.
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I always keep my Macs up to date and have yet to experience any issues at all. That I can't say for Adobe software. DW in particular.