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Re:Windows 10 informs Chrome and Firefox users that Edge is ... by ocdtrekkie on Monday November 21, 2016 @05:36PM (#13009879)
It's a closed source OS, you really have two options:

1. Apply security updates, so you are not vulnerable to easily solvable security risks.

2. Don't use Windows 10.

Disabling automatic updates isn't really a viable solution, and I will convey downvotes to people who advocate it.

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Re:Windows 10 informs Chrome and Firefox users that Edge is ... by tdkl on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @05:16AM (#13013036)
> Disabling automatic updates isn't really a viable solution, and I will convey downvotes to people who advocate it.

As they switch to a cumulative update model, will you wildly down-vote people who think that breaking their system with 1 update out of 10 is somehow reasonable ? Or that excluding that update but installing others would make more sense, then:

a) leaving everything out for that month,

b) having an unusable system.

Morons like you who accept and even enforce this kind of "my way of the highway" attitude to the others are the reason MS can get away with it.

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Re:Windows 10 informs Chrome and Firefox users that Edge is ... by aq3cn on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @08:42AM (#13014025)
If anyone audits the settings page under update they can find an option to defer upgrade. More people need to know about it.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/instantanswers/20a98a29-...

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Re:Windows 10 informs Chrome and Firefox users that Edge is ... by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @06:28PM (#13018603)
I find cumulative updates irritating, and I've complained about it loudly to anyone who will listen. Disabling automatic updates is STILL not a viable solution.
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