• Updates are not served to me at regular, known intervals. Perhaps it's due to a progressive rollout policy of some kind.

• Certain days come up that I, the paying user, do not want to patch on. Microsoft wins this disagreement and I lose. This occurs in a glib fashion with a message like "Hey, just a heads up, we are going to restart your computer" (whether I like it or not). It is my computer, there is no "we!"

It will absolutely close programs with unsaved work if I am not there.

• Maybe I don't want the performance hit on my gaming PC. This is another element of surprise: who knows how bad it'll be? Certainly not the users if Intel and Microsoft have their way.

• Yet another element of surprise: I've had hardware stop working after updates.

I cannot wait until it becomes viable to escape the toxicity of companies such as Intel and Microsoft.