Similar to how getting a vacination is not only good for you, but also for the rest of society.
Mind you, I'm saying this from a perspective of someone who uses his machine to perform nightly jobs (learning models, ontology alignment, etc) So it's not like I haven't shared your pain =)
Thanks for the explanation, but I'm well aware of malware. I wrote my own boot sector viruses back in 8-bit days.
But the point still stands: Microsoft's practices stop him from doing his work, and could cost him his livelihood because it assumes that fixing its failures are more important than his work. What's the point of even having the computer if it can't be relied upon to do complex tasks?
I tend to agree, but I have difficulty when you scale the problem. No individual person benefits from having their computer rebooted enough to counteract the issues, but might everyone collectively? The utilitarian calculus becomes difficult.
Though parallel solutions: better security testing or a capacity for live updates without a reboot, may be an answer.