My wife has been using Windows XP on a 7+ year old box, the only Windows computer we have, for Quickbooks. She also watches her TV shows online but it's frequently jerky and she'll occasionally run into some issue that I have to fix.
Over six months ago, my son upgraded his gaming computer and left us the old one which is far faster, as you can imagine, than anything she's ever had before. At the same time, her system started acting in a way that I could tell it wasn't long for this world. So I did a clean install of Win7 on it along with Quickbooks, Chrome and that's about it. But getting her to switch to the newer, faster, better system is like pulling teeth and it sat there till ... yesterday.
Over the last few days, the built-in graphics card started acting up, her display settings were all over the place and, finally, she could only get the red channel unless she rebooted. She was finally convinced to switch to the new one.
However ....
After sitting in the corner for 6+ months, Windows 7 needed updating. The updates were many and took forever. When they started failing, I found out about a KB requiring an 800MB executable to fix security issues from just a couple weeks ago. The ongoing onslaught of update upon update had me tearing my hair out. "Two updates left!", I told her.
Reboot. Run Windows Update. "Nine updates more!".
Six hours, folks. Six hours.
While all this was going on, I updated one of my FreeBSD development boxes from 9.2 to 10.0. It took 10 minutes(?). I then installed FreeBSD10 on a new server, remotely, including DNS, server software, mail server, transferred a web site over from another host, installed a new SSL certificate and a few other things. Took me, half an hour(?). Might have been an hour. Wasn't timing it.
But my point is, it took me six hours to update Windows 7.
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