> Sure, we can blame carriers, manufacturers and hardware suppliers for having their own policies, but this is the same for your average Windows laptop minus th

> Sure, we can blame carriers, manufacturers and hardware suppliers for having their own policies, but this is the same for your average Windows laptop minus the carriers. Bundled themes and crapware from Sony, Lenovo or Dell never stopped Windows from updating. Sometimes they do. Samsung was caught adding bloatware that disabled Windows Update: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/samsung-silently-disabling-windows-update-on-some-computers/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/samsun...