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Because of my own stupidity (the details are embarrising) I have had to bring forward my "plans" to upgrade from XP SP2 to another Version of MS Windows.
In my case its Vista Business SP2 (a Dell and Vista 32 Bit ) the disk came with the P.C with XP as an extra paid for upgrade.
I'm relatively experenced as an end user but its a "Sea change" dealing with the visittudes of an unfamiliar operating system and its upgrade habits - this applies to Win 7 (I'm familiar with it) and perhaps windows 8 & 8.1 too
Through time, end users do change program associations and preferences for a variety of reasons in a personal context - In Business things are often different (VPN's and System enforced user policies) constrain modifications.
Support specialists often come from an industrial context supporting a product via a structured menu driven algorithmic process unlike the old days where sweat & intutition ruled the roost.
Because of the sheer numbers - Microsoft I think, do enforce urgent security fixes - even if you have chosen to select the download and notify me option.
This is confusing.
The experts will be able to confirm this. For non business end users.
Again Business users benefit from the delay and validation process by the IT department before fixes/updates are released at a site.
CAT III
[Edit: I'm on IE9 too and its slow.......]