Yeah man no clue what you're talking about unfortunately or fortunately. I can't see someone who doesn't know how to schedule updates outside of working hours as someone who should even consider Linux.
Come to think of it, I've never experienced a "forced" update. You either accept the notification or reschedule it, and still you can reschedule it as many times as you want.
This is all coming from someone who uses new release builds with fast ring by the way. So I mean idk.. I just really gotta scratch my head anytime someone mentions having issues with something so seemingly trivial.
"and still you can reschedule it as many times as you want"
I don't think that is correct. Only some Windows licences allow deferring, and no Window licence allows indefinite deferral of feature updates.
Microsoft wants to cut costs associated with maintaining Windows as it is now a legacy product, and I imagine it is an incredibly expensive product to support per version. Forced upgrades make it cheaper since eventually, when Windows 7 reaches end of live, Microsoft will have a much reduced number of versions to support. I think this is a good thing for everyone.
I don't know if I can go for permanently deferred updates. I guess, for feature updates. But most of these contain security fixes also. I think it's a bad idea not to update.
What I see more of is third party software doesn't move as fast as Windows, especially on the enterprise side. I work with a lot of Dentists and the biggest issue we face is their practice management software either doesn't work with Win10 or the Dentist themselves refuse to update the PMS and updates break things because they are determined to stay on old code bases... fear of change.
Either way, Windows 10 came out 4 years ago..it's ridiculous some vendors have not caught up yet.
I can't see someone who doesn't know how to schedule updates outside of working hours as someone who should even consider Linux.
I am well familiar with scheduling updates. Unfortunately, in my experience, that has no effect is the computer is on hibernate or powered off at the time you've selected. Desktops that are left on at all times can easily handle such a situation. Laptops for people who have no set schedule are not quite as easy.
I'm certainly glad you've never experienced a forced update, but I assure you, it happens.
Ahhh okay. That clarification helps a lot. I mean yeah, I guess if you turn off the computer when it needs to update, there is no real basis of control for that.
I was under the impression that you were acting as if it would just kick you off out of no where without any prior mention in advance.
Thanks for clearing that up. We can be friends again (:
Ha ha, no, Windows has never done that. It just has a nasty habit of jumping into the midst of a user-triggered startup/shutdown/restart, and it seems to (inexplicably) do it at the most unexpected and worst possible times.
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Yeah man no clue what you're talking about unfortunately or fortunately. I can't see someone who doesn't know how to schedule updates outside of working hours as someone who should even consider Linux.
Come to think of it, I've never experienced a "forced" update. You either accept the notification or reschedule it, and still you can reschedule it as many times as you want.
This is all coming from someone who uses new release builds with fast ring by the way. So I mean idk.. I just really gotta scratch my head anytime someone mentions having issues with something so seemingly trivial.
"and still you can reschedule it as many times as you want"
I don't think that is correct. Only some Windows licences allow deferring, and no Window licence allows indefinite deferral of feature updates.
Microsoft wants to cut costs associated with maintaining Windows as it is now a legacy product, and I imagine it is an incredibly expensive product to support per version. Forced upgrades make it cheaper since eventually, when Windows 7 reaches end of live, Microsoft will have a much reduced number of versions to support. I think this is a good thing for everyone.
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I don't know if I can go for permanently deferred updates. I guess, for feature updates. But most of these contain security fixes also. I think it's a bad idea not to update.
What I see more of is third party software doesn't move as fast as Windows, especially on the enterprise side. I work with a lot of Dentists and the biggest issue we face is their practice management software either doesn't work with Win10 or the Dentist themselves refuse to update the PMS and updates break things because they are determined to stay on old code bases... fear of change.
Either way, Windows 10 came out 4 years ago..it's ridiculous some vendors have not caught up yet.
I am well familiar with scheduling updates. Unfortunately, in my experience, that has no effect is the computer is on hibernate or powered off at the time you've selected. Desktops that are left on at all times can easily handle such a situation. Laptops for people who have no set schedule are not quite as easy.
I'm certainly glad you've never experienced a forced update, but I assure you, it happens.
Ahhh okay. That clarification helps a lot. I mean yeah, I guess if you turn off the computer when it needs to update, there is no real basis of control for that.
I was under the impression that you were acting as if it would just kick you off out of no where without any prior mention in advance.
Thanks for clearing that up. We can be friends again (:
Ha ha, no, Windows has never done that. It just has a nasty habit of jumping into the midst of a user-triggered startup/shutdown/restart, and it seems to (inexplicably) do it at the most unexpected and worst possible times.