Personally, I never update an OS right away - this goes for both Mac and Windows. The first release to the general public usually turns out bad for a lot of users, due to unforeseen circumstances on the part of the developer. When the first service pack comes along, the majority of the bugs get fixed.

By then most other software companies have had a chance to update their drivers as well.

In addition to all that, unless I have a need to upgrade, I'll update when I get a new computer (although after the Vista reports came out, I stayed with XP).

Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with being on the cutting edge, but with my luck, the cutting edge is sometimes the bleeding edge

Software other than the OS I'm more adventurous about. But I always go a "ghost" image first so I can restore the system to the previous condition. But the OS affects so many different things that many days might go by before I find out that I don't like it and then my pre-OS ghost image is old and doesn't contain the other changes to my computer (like e-mail history, database history, etc.)

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