Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri...
by graycat on Friday August 19, 2016 @03:51PM
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Suspicions confirmed:
So, in this tread I mentioned that I
wanted to select when to have updates and
didn't want automatic updates and that
because of my concern that at least in
principle updates could break existing
development tools or running production
code.
So, if I'm not ready to take the time,
money, and effort to respond to such
breakage, then I want to delay updates
until I am.
In particular for my development and
production systems, an automatic update
that breaks crucial tools or working code
could be a disaster for my startup.
Okay, now we have a current example of
where a Microsoft Windows 10 update broke
old code that was working.
So, in this tread I mentioned that I wanted to select when to have updates and didn't want automatic updates and that because of my concern that at least in principle updates could break existing development tools or running production code.
So, if I'm not ready to take the time, money, and effort to respond to such breakage, then I want to delay updates until I am.
In particular for my development and production systems, an automatic update that breaks crucial tools or working code could be a disaster for my startup.
Okay, now we have a current example of where a Microsoft Windows 10 update broke old code that was working.
So, the HN link is at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12319661
the story is at
https://github.com/abrenaut/posio
and the title of the story is
"Show HN: A Multiplayer Geography Game Using WebSockets (github.com)"