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Not that I want to defend MS, but the longest I have ever seen it take to update is a couple of hours. Annoying, yes. Should it be user postponable? Yes. Actua
by tomjen3 4y ago
Not that I want to defend MS, but the longest I have ever seen it take to update is a couple of hours. Annoying, yes. Should it be user postponable? Yes.
Actually, it is user postponable, you can tell the update to wait up to 5 days by default. It should still allow you to wait unlimited time of course, but you can always press that button once.
- jstarfish 4y agoThey put more thought into their anti-piracy mechanics. Want to compel a user to update/reboot? Mess with the aesthetics. Disable their wedding-photo background. Change the UI to something horrendously ugly (pink-on-green?). Toggle high-contrast mode every hour.
- Nihilartikel 4y ago5 days! How magnanimous of them! (Snark not directed at you personally at all) But I write as a person who once had to make idle chitchat with an audience of 300 for 8 minutes when a university presentation computer decided that it had to restart RIGHT NOW.
- tomjen3 4y agoThat is almost certainly because the IT department configured it that way. Most IT departments are not very competent.