I think they realized that people obsessing over uptime yielded machines that hadn't been patched in half a year, and took the easier route to fix it (forced re

I think they realized that people obsessing over uptime yielded machines that hadn't been patched in half a year, and took the easier route to fix it (forced reboots, instead of a Windows equivalent of kGraft). While I don't agree with the most recent iteration, this is just a continuation of the slow march they've been on since they added Automatic Updates and downloading the updates before prompting you to install, then increasingly invasive prompts, until now, where you can't opt out of restarting without highly invasive registry changes or an enterprise license.