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Comment by orionblastar | Hacker News Reader

This seems to be used by Microsoft like the Windows 7 and 8.1 to Windows 10 upgrades.

Sure, for home versions but updating a server version without explicit direction to do so is really bad for business.

In this case, based on comments there, new server is not licensed anymore and not activated after the upgrade. Making this problem much worse, as options are either purchasing new licenses or reinstalling everything.

Edit: it's not clear to me how much responsibility lies with 3rd party update management tool and how much with Microsoft. This update doesn't seem to automatically run by itself, but it might be misclassified so that these tools think it's a security update and just deploy like any other patch.

Some of the Windows 10 upgrades were unlicensed and not activated, too. They worked for 30 days or so, then asked for activation and a serial key. Some worked longer than that and then deactivated themselves. It was chaos for the end users, but Microsoft spent money on buying new serial keys and licenses.

For your business. Not for Microsoft's

It gives me chills thinking of production servers being magically upgraded to a new and untested version of Windows.

It gives me chills thinking of production servers running windows.

but it's the most stable and secure version of Windows yet

I have the most stable and secure version of Windows in my personal laptop, perfectly safe sleeping in its partition until I boot it every few months to install updates.

I remember Windows NT 3.1 getting government clearance ratings when it was not on any network. Maybe it was NT 4.0?

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