Eg. Steam ask if it should update a game. Windows just does it and adds Candy Crush and spyware. Two different takes on the same thing.
Also Microsoft controls the code they push on your computer, they paid the people who wrote it and they take liability for it. Browsers are automatically pushing other people's code to your computer
No, Microsoft does not take liability, they expressly disclaim any and all liability in the users agreement.
Do we really need to be this hyperbolic? And Steam can auto update games just fine (I even remember it being the default, but not sure.)
Sure I get it. Autoupdates are fine if used wisely and I am not dogmatic really it is more that I am bitter. However a simple prompt just makes ones life so much easier so that I know why something breaks.
I think Steams delayed updates as default are to decrease bandwidth during covid lockdowns?
the days before Windows auto update meant millions of unpatched machines running wild on the internet. I know it gets a lot of hate these days but its gotta be better than the alternative.
If Windows only force pushed security updates in secirity labeled patches like in XP it would probably be fine in practice. But I never know what happens when I restart my work Win 10 laptop. Maybe wifi gives up. Or the docking station wont work. Who knows it happened to me and my collegues multiple times.
I actually wonder if the corparate IT is to blame since I don't have the same instability problems on my Win 10 gaming rig, or maybe laptops just are way more sensitive.
A tragedy of the walled-gardens.