> But you can pick a time of your choice and specify a day up to about 5 days in the future or something, so it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be. O

> But you can pick a time of your choice and specify a day up to about 5 days in the future or something, so it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be. Only if you catch it while it's prompting. I've seen people set up for a meeting/presentation/etc, test everything's working and then walk away from their computer to grab a drink. In that time, Windows has popped up a "Hey, we're going to perform updates" dialog which if you don't catch it before it disappears, becomes uncancellable/undeferrable. Depending on the update (eg Creators Edition) it then spends the next 20-45 minutes with the entire machine being unusable. I've seen many panicky tweets from people who're about to give a talk in an hour or two that they've just opened their laptop and it's resumed into the dreaded "Oh, we're just updating now!" screen.