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Re:Windows 10 upgrade installing automatically on some Windo... by shmed on Friday October 16, 2015 @05:55PM (#10402254)
Right, because pushing major updates to hundreds of millions of users, each using different hardware, with different OS versions, different level of customization on that OS and different software installed is SUCH a trivial thing to do. No room for small (repairable) errors that might affect a handful of people under certain circumstances.
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Re:Windows 10 upgrade installing automatically on some Windo... by CamperBob2 on Friday October 16, 2015 @06:03PM (#10402303)
It's not trivial, you're right -- which is why you put your A-level people on it. Windows Update is Windows now... yet every week it seems they push another broken, malformed, or generally customer-unfriendly update. Their new policy of suppressing release notes is just (brown) icing on the cake.

The end result of all this stupidity is to incentivize users to turn off automatic updates. Everybody with an Internet connection will suffer for that.

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