“Each day that I work at the office (away from my home’s Microsoft-free environment), I am reminded how back in time Microsoft really is compared to Apple and Linux.
Bleghhhhh!”
This has been your MS bash propaganda post of the day.
What MS should do is end support for anyone that wants to stop auto updates. They are under no obligation to support people that let updates, especially critical ones languish and then moan and cry when stuff goes wrong.
I love the idea.
A lot of users are just using Windows due to inertia. Pee in their face long enough and they'll finally bolt.
Installing some of those updates here at the office has caused us more than considerable heartache. Some of those updates change configuration settings for IIS and other applications that have disabled networks, access to the internet, etc.
Worse, MS doesn’t warn you that its doing it, or tell you that it’s done it.
They aren’t debugging their fixes well enough. I believe their philosophy is that in point of fact, you can’t debug it enough to satisfy everyone.
We stopped the automatic fixes, and even still some of our apps are updating themselves without telling us, and we don’t know how.
I got a notice, this week-end that I had two critical updates for Microsoft software and Windows and several non-critical, but all they seemed to want to do was get in my computer and verify the software license. The language sounded threatening, and I just decided to turn off the auto updates. I don’t have any software that didn’t either come with my computer or was legally purchased, but the whole idea of them spending hours going through my computer and turning it off and starting it up numerous times, was really annoying.