On Wed, 6 May 2015 20:51:58 +0100, Bill wrote:

In message , Char Jackson
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On Wed, 6 May 2015 09:22:48 +0100, Bill wrote:

And what do I do when W10 is 2 years old and I have the original
recovery disk or partition and my ssd wears out and needs a new one. I
recover from the media I have and then need 2 years of updates.

Within about 6 months (give or take) of installing the public release
version of W10, you put your original recovery disk away for safekeeping and
never use it again, unless you're restoring the system for disposal. Instead
of using that disc, you start thinking about using your own restore disk.
You know, the one(s) that you periodically make every 6 months or so.

You may take a full system image every 6 months, but I don't know of
many "normal" users who do. I occasionally support small offices - say
10 computers. They do regular backups of the one that acts as the
"server", and maybe some machines, but most rely on the one original
image and/or the restore partition.
With most people I know, finding any disk is a huge problem, let alone
multiple images.
My
experience is that these updates need to be done in the correct order or
in small batches to avoid recurrent update failures. An automatic system
will make this impossible.

I personally haven't ever seen any issues with letting the update process
take care of itself, so I never bother doing anything special like breaking
a larger number of updates into several smaller chunks. I'm aware that a few
others have had issues, though. As for an automatic update system making
that impossible, I think it might be the opposite. It might make updating
seamless and transparent.

Well, that's not my experience.

There isn't a day that goes by without my Android phone telling me that such
and such apps were updated. It all happens seamlessly, in the background,
and so far there's never been an issue. So the model is there and it's now
down to whether MS can successfully do what Android does, although I'm
clearly mixing apps and OS here. Two different kettle of fish, but there are
still similarities.

One fishy kettle has an OS and small apps that update themselves on top
of it, the other kettles update the OS itself. I just booted up a Vista
laptop that I found under a pile of papers. It has just downloaded and
installed 80 updates, almost all to the OS itself.
When did you last have to reboot an Android tablet because of updates?

If you follow the W10 insider forums, you must have seen how many
different things are broken by each update, and how bad driver updates
re-install over and over again.

Windows 10 hasn't been released yet. I'm not going to get too concerned
about it until it has.