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Obviously I cannot speak for MS or for other users, but I see a major difference between (IE,Edge,Chrome,FF) and (OS). If an upgrade renders any of the former u
by Piskvorrr 8y ago
Obviously I cannot speak for MS or for other users, but I see a major difference between (IE,Edge,Chrome,FF) and (OS). If an upgrade renders any of the former unusable, it's an annoyance, but there is a fallback a few clicks away. For an OS...sure, I could whip out a live USB (as opposed to most users), but I'm mostly locked out of my Windows apps, and some of my data.
If you don't see how an OS upgrade is different from an app upgrade within an OS, I honestly have no better way to explain.
(As for IE, don't tell a veteran what the Browser Wars were: IIRC, the rest of the browsers managed to move on without autoupgrades at first, so don't bring up that particular straw man: the issue wasn't autoupdate, it was "IE8 is the pinnacle of browsing, we're not going to update it for years, dev team dissolved.")