Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
by nradov on Monday May 15, 2017 @01:57PM
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I agree, the spontaneous reboots make my wife furious. But I think the only real solution is for MS to enhance Windows to allow updates without rebooting. This is obviously a huge engineering challenge but it should be achievable, at least for the vast majority of updates.
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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
by idlewan on Monday May 15, 2017 @04:47PM
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That's not a huge engineering challenge. Every single linux distro has been doing it since forever.
Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
by thanksgiving on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @03:25AM
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Not really. It is much easier to just reboot than try to hot swap. When it comes to windows users, we have people still on xp so I'm sure these people would never reboot unless they were forced to reboot. It is fun to make fun of Microsoft but it is a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario.
People really don't care about eventual (in)security. If given the opportunity, we pick convenience every time.