Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry
by baybal2 on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @02:32PM
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>What are you even talking about?
About people seeing the nag popup and following whatever "howto" to disable it they find.
Not less important, people running warez Windows (which, as a simple fact, are a majority outside US and Western Europe) are afraid that the next update will can their hack.
To somebody not computer literate "an update" is just something that makes their computer slow, and reboots it for update just in time before somebody's project deadline :)
People got so conditioned over the years by that, that they download one of countless "update disablers" as a knee jerk reaction to anything resembling update popup now.
Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry
by cptskippy on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @03:44PM
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Microsoft started providing security updates regardless of activation status to all versions of Windows from XP forward because of the botnet problem years ago.
About people seeing the nag popup and following whatever "howto" to disable it they find.
Not less important, people running warez Windows (which, as a simple fact, are a majority outside US and Western Europe) are afraid that the next update will can their hack.
To somebody not computer literate "an update" is just something that makes their computer slow, and reboots it for update just in time before somebody's project deadline :)
People got so conditioned over the years by that, that they download one of countless "update disablers" as a knee jerk reaction to anything resembling update popup now.