Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
by marcosdumay on Monday May 15, 2017 @12:48PM
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> A few are going to become paranoid and claim that the doctor also injected a brainwashing drug (even if there is no grounds for their claim).
Except that there were demonstrated cases of MS inserting the "brainwashing drugs" on the updates. Many people had legitimate copies of Win XP bricked by XPA, MS alti-malware broke install a couple of times in Win7 (and off-line machines were bricked by DRM more than once), and, finally with Win10 we've officially got the spyware and adware coming through updates like people were long expecting.
Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
by pritambaral on Monday May 15, 2017 @10:27AM
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"dental checkup and cleaning" sounds much more benign than "multi-GB download of an entirely different OS"
Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
by AstralStorm on Monday May 15, 2017 @12:42PM
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And the doctor not nag you every few hours that you haven't had your dental check, while you're working.
And when you do get one, you don't lose sight.
(My favourite complaint is Windows replacing GPU drivers with MS approved broken ones on major updates.)
Microsoft needs to deliver updates in tiers in order to regain trust. Simply dividing it up into mandatory security updates, optional bug fixes, and optional feature upgrades would go a long way to addressing that even if the default is for all three tiers.