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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by gsich on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:16PM (#17211350)
2. Can be delayed.

3. I agree. I don't give a shit about what users do to their machine, but when they launch a DDos to my servers, I blame them for not updateing their OS. In Windows XP history, there were many viruses/trojanes/whatever that were only possible because people didn't update.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by philipov on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:23PM (#17211394)
I wouldn't mind forced updates if they were only used for critical security updates. They are not; Microsoft abuses the privilege, and therefore may not be trusted to have it at all.
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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by gsich on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:27PM (#17211417)
Feature updates can be delayed for up to a year.
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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by Maarten88 on Saturday June 02, 2018 @05:24AM (#17213710)
On Pro and up. Not on Home.
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