M1 - Explain
the advantages and potential disadvantages of installation or upgrade of new
software
In this piece of work I will be explaining the advantage and
the disadvantages of installing or upgrading to new software and will give some
example.
Advantages:
New Features:
When
upgrading new software it will come with new features that will make your
computer faster and much easier to use which allows you to get work done
faster. An example of some new features you may have when you upgrade to new software
would be if you were upgrading to windows 8 from windows 7 you would get some
new features such as touchscreen like a tablet and cloud storage where you
could save a piece of work onto your cloud profile and then continue working on
that piece of work from a different computer at work or at some one else house
using your cloud storage.
Fixes Bugs:
When you
upgrade to new software it will fix any bugs you had when you were using your
old software making things easier on you and you won’t have to stress yourself
in case a bug occurs and none of your work is saved. The impact this will have
on your computer will be that it now runs much faster than it did before and
you will not encounter the bug anymore because you have fixed it. This means
your computer is safer from encountering bugs.
Improves PC Performance:
Your PC
performance will improve once you have upgraded to new software because you are
no longer using an older version, which means you PC will run more smooth and
faster. Before you upgraded to newer software your computer could have been
running really slow and crashing a lot and you may not have known the reason
behind this but once you upgraded to a new software all of this could have
stopped for you.
New GUI:
You will get
a new GUI when you upgrade your software making things easier to find if you
couldn’t find them before and it will also make you PC look better and run
better.
Saves Storage:
Upgrading to
new software takes up less storage, which leaves you with more memory for all
your work. Before you could have had not that much room o you where always
storing things onto backup drives or deleting things you do no need anymore,
but when you upgrade to a new software you may get a better storage device
which can save more work than before and then you would not have to save stuff
on to a backup drive or even delete stuff anymore.
Better quality work:
When you
have upgraded to new software the quality of your work may get better because
of new features and programs on the system that makes it easier for you to work
which will allow you to produce better quality for work.
Easier to use:
The new
system that you have upgraded to might be a whole lot easier to use than the
older system you were using before and this will benefit you because you will
know how to use it without getting any help and will make work less stressful
for you.
Disadvantages:
Cost to buy:
It can be
very expensive to upgrade to a new system so if you don’t have the money and
your old system starts to face errors and crashes a lot and you need a piece of
work done by a certain time then you will be facing problems and may end up
late with the work.
Older h/w or s/w:
You may
upgrade to a new system but not get any new hardware and software because you
don’t think you have to but then you will be using the same old hardware and
software as before which may face a lot of bugs. Older hardware and software
can be outdated and face a lot of problems down the road which could be very
bad for you because one day everything could be working fine and the next your
computers encounters a problem and deletes everything on it meaning you just
lost all of your work. Therefor it is better to upgrading o new hardware or
software.
Bugs:
Sometimes
upgrading to a new system can be good and may work fine without any problems
for you, but other times when upgrading to a new system you may encounter bugs
that have not been fixed yet and you may have to wait until a patch is realised
to fix these bugs meaning you may not be able to use any of the new features to
their full.
Installation time:
It can take
a very long time to install new software which is a disadvantage because while
you are waiting on the software to install you are missing out on time that
could be used to do work that you may need done.
Worse than the original, may not be
what you thought:
The new
software that you have just upgraded to could be worse than the older one that
you were using, there may be a lot of bugs that need fixed and it could run a
whole lot slower and you may find out that you wasted money on it.
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