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> People cannot be trusted to upgrade. It REALLY IS good to force people to upgrade.

The very idea that users should be at the mercy of their computers instead of the other way around is contrary to the concept of personal computing.

People like you are why I hate IT these days. You seem to think that because you have some specialized knowledge about computers that you're smarter than everyone who doesn't. You're totally willing to sacrifice hours of peoples lives, ruin their projects, and break their systems in the name of "I know better". It doesn't matter what they're doing, or how important it is to their lives, what matters is what you think is important.

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> People like you are why I hate IT these days. You seem to think that because you have some specialized knowledge about computers that you're smarter than everyone who doesn't. You're totally willing to sacrifice hours of peoples lives, ruin their projects, and break their systems in the name of "I know better". It doesn't matter what they're doing, or how important it is to their lives, what matters is what you think is important.

A thousand times this.

It's not about specialized knowledge...it's about regular maintenance.

Hate me or not...but people can't be trusted (broadly) to maintain things...thats just the way life works.

Why should they be forced to, at the expense of things that matter to them, though? That's the problem.

Automatic updates were a default. People turned them off because they were annoying. One solution to this problem was to make them not-annoying, but instead Microsoft opted to become aggressive and force people to update.

I will never hold anyone who thinks this is a good idea in high regard because they are actively making the world a worse place.

They have to be forced to because they often refuse to.

It's really that simple...cry about it all you want. It's a necessary evil...because humans.

Microsoft forces them because it has to, there is no law for it. To drive a car, the car needs to pass a yearly inspection.

It saves them money in support calls.

Based on how ludicrously frequently updates are breaking things, this is a dubious assertion.

I fully understand the frustration after seeing people having their computers reboot in the middle of presentations and other important events. That's why they made multiple products. Consumer OS = you don't want to be the sysadmin of the computer. Enterprise/LTSB OS = do what you want.

I still get forced reboots on my workplace Win10 laptop. I can just postpone the update like 4 weeks. And then stuff brake.

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