Nil wrote:
On 07 Jun 2015, Paul wrote in alt.comp.os.windows-
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With the Home/Core, it installs the Windows Update
immediately. Then informs you that a reboot is needed,
within the next 24 hours or something. And it will reboot
on its own eventually, just to show you who is boss.

This just seems insane to me. What if you're on dial-up? What if you're
doing important work when the computer decides it has to reboot? What
if you're rendering video and need all available horsepower when it
decides to download several gigabytes of updates? What if a particular
update turns out to break certain combinations of hardware? You might
even be aware of such problems but be unable to stop it other than
disconnecting from the net. I can think of many scenarios that are
troublesome, to say the least.

And I think this should tell you something, about
the Microsoft understanding of what people use
the computers for. It must be "content consumption",
where the user switches off when they sleep,
and all the updates can be done then.

Apparently, real people don't use computers for
longer intervals of time. And people have nothing
better to do than wait until some update crap
is finished :-)

What they're doing, is roughly equivalent to
"electric cars" and "range anxiety". They're trying
to do the same thing with computers, introduce
"update anxiety".

Paul