Windows Updates in Europe

In the past, I used to think that being in Europe felt like being second class users : all new features were delayed by at least a semester and everything was already familiar with stuff that wasn't even available in my tenant.

But yesterday I had a maintenance window on my infrastructure and realized that for the past 4 years at my current job, I never had a single Windows update causing outages / BSOD or any problem (besides the usual MS bullshit changes on some end-users software).

Am I just lucky or is it the result of being in Europe somehow saving me of all those scary updates that brick DCs, servers and endpoints generally ?

I diligently update and restart my servers once a month, track vulnerabilities, so I don't think I'm simply lacking the latest patches, I believe that in Europe, we are less subject to half finished updates and that the US serves as a test while the actual, fixed release is in Europe.

What do you think ?