Letters

I ‘wait and see’ with Windows upgrades

The advice in Issue 612’s Cover Feature (‘Make Windows 10 Last Longer’, pictured) will help me keep the operating system running smoothly.

However, I’ll still adopt the strategy I’ve used when previous versions have been released. This is to wait 12 to 18 months after a system has launched, read all the reviews, shake my head at the early problems, then choose whether upgrading is the right decision.

If it is, I’ll know by then how to avoid most of the problems that always come with a new system.

This ‘wait and see’ approach has served me well in the past. It’s meant I avoided the disasters of Windows Vista and Windows 8. I skipped both of these, stayed on XP and 7 (respectively), then several years later made