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Re:Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss re... by nikanj on Saturday October 06, 2018 @08:20PM (#18158141)
The absolutely infuriating thing is, as soon as a ”disable updates” hack gains posterity, Microsoft shuts it down. If you just follow the first Google result for disabling updates, you still end up getting reboots.

It’s one of the most anti-user policies Microsoft has pulled, and they have a long list..

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Re:Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss re... by tom_ on Saturday October 06, 2018 @10:07PM (#18158498)
My understanding is that the group policy business is 100% intentional, and it's how you're supposed to do it. If you're an IT guy responsible for a whole pile of PCs, you need a way to stop them rebooting all the time, and this is how you do that.

MS know how their bread is buttered. Who there would dare shut this down? The program managers know that if they break this stuff, there'll be a legion of angry IT guys clubbing together to pay to have them killed.

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