Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
by slig on Monday June 13, 2016 @09:26AM
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Or a world where a forced update breaks my parents' computer that was working perfectly fine before.
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Without them, your parents' computer would just be insecure, instead. Unfortunately, keeping things static doesn't work so well with internet connected devices.
It would be nice if things didn't break with updates, though.
I will backpedal a bit and say though: it is never OK to arbitrarily reboot a system. Never. I'll also say that I would not use windows 10 for anything important.
The idea behind their update system is generally sound, but their execution is not good.
As opposed to a world full of legacy systems with security holes that are part of botnets.
Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
by Silhouette on Monday June 13, 2016 @11:32AM
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Applying security updates by default would solve that problem just as well. From the user's point of view, there is no good reason to force updates against a user's explicit decision, and there is no good reason to push non-security/stability updates even by default.
The only time forcing all updates in that way makes a difference is when Microsoft wants to override a user's deliberate preference not to have their system changed in that way. This cannot possibly be in the user's interest, only Microsoft's.