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Re:Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss re... by lostmsu on Saturday October 06, 2018 @10:40PM (#18158578)
You should blame your simulation software vendor (which could be yourself, lol). Windows gives software a way to tell, that computer is busy, and if your software did not do that, I am not sure how is this fault of Windows?

Without that, computer might go to sleep, which would happen on any other OS too under default settings.

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/winbase...

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Re:Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss re... by ryandrake on Saturday October 06, 2018 @10:43PM (#18158584)
The onus should not be on the user or the user's application to tell the computer "don't do this thing". It should be up to the user whether some thing gets done. The user is supposed to command the computer, not the other way around.
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Re:Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss re... by paulryanrogers on Sunday October 07, 2018 @08:48AM (#18160315)
One counterargument could be that users who ignore updates too often will lose control to malicious software over time.
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Re:Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss re... by xfer on Saturday October 06, 2018 @11:25PM (#18158681)
There is a setting for sleep timer, which people disable on desktops. It seems pretty ridiculous to suggest to call an api, to not randomly do things that the user didn't instruct.
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