Full disclosure: I think that if it was done right, a regular stream of security updates to a widely used consumer OS would be terrific and nothing short of a boon to the user.
Problem is, it can’t be done right within the context of Windows.
Done right, it would not require a reboot except for extreme patches to the inner kernel, as Linux and Unix do. Reboots are disruptive and it is only the poor architecture of Windows that makes them necessary with every update set.
Done right, it would not break things, applications in particular. But Windows forces applications to do things in a way that makes them more fragile.
And so on. I’d love it, if it could be done right. Alas, no such luck.
I note that reboots are far fewer these days. Normally they seem to need access to the registry etc and that requires a restart.
This does not irritate me quite as much as it used to but I am one of those who leaves their computers on and only allows the screen to go dark. The updates are usually installed during down times and it restarts whatever I had running like email clients and such. But that is win 7.
On 8.1, I rarely even know it was updated..
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Just received a notice from Kaspersky that their win10 compatible upgrade is ready for download.
That is one concern I had because my subscription still has a year and a half to run...they say no problemo.....
Just a dumb question but is it not the responsibility of the application writer to keep up with MS, if they are a approved partner or whatever they call it now?