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Or a world where a forced update breaks my parents' computer that was working perfectly fine before.

• abakker 10y ago
  Without them, your parents' computer would just be insecure, instead. Unfortunately, keeping things static doesn't work so well with internet connected devices. It would be nice if things didn't break with updates, though.
  • abakker 10y ago
    I will backpedal a bit and say though: it is never OK to arbitrarily reboot a system. Never. I'll also say that I would not use windows 10 for anything important. The idea behind their update system is generally sound, but their execution is not good.
• ajmurmann 10y ago
  As opposed to a world full of legacy systems with security holes that are part of botnets.
  • Silhouette 10y ago
    Applying security updates by default would solve that problem just as well. From the user's point of view, there is no good reason to force updates against a user's explicit decision, and there is no good reason to push non-security/stability updates even by default. The only time forcing all updates in that way makes a difference is when Microsoft wants to override a user's deliberate preference not to have their system changed in that way. This cannot possibly be in the user's interest, only Microsoft's.
  • DanBC 10y ago
    Windows 8 was released in late 2012. What can't be fixed by security updates, as opposed to OS upgrade?