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The complaints are mainly about not being able to choose when and if updates are applied.

• naikrovek 7y ago
  If the complaint is that "I am not told when my computer will reboot" then that isn't really valid anymore. There are lots of notifications and dialogs that let users know about pending reboots days in advance. If the complaint is that "I can't skip arbitrary patches at will" then yeah that's not possible, nor should it be if you're aware of security concerns AT ALL. Windows users have a long history of not willingly patching against vulnerabilities that are actively being used by attackers in the wild, and for very odd reasons. Those reasons can include complete ignorance of the vulnerability or the patch which fixes it, fear of a wide array of conspiracy theories (I've heard all of these that I care to hear in 1,000 lifetimes), fear of post-patch performance problems, fear of home-grown automation breaking, and a bazillion other reasons, nearly all of which are complete nonsense in practice. I was very happy when Microsoft announced that they would force updates on most users, because my own experience and Microsoft's telemetry both agreed that if given an option, users simply will not patch their systems.