Microsoft wouldn’t sell a surgery office or nuclear bunker the versions of Windows with automatic updates in. Even if they tried, the relevant organizations wouldn’t buy those versions. Even if they did, regulators wouldn’t allow the purchase.

It’s like complaining that your game console can’t run hard-real-time factory control software. Nobody ever claimed it did, and you’d be personally irresponsible to even try. There are certifications hardware and software need to achieve to be used for such purposes. Use the certified software. (Windows Embedded Core, for example.)

Well some people consider their work to be as important as rocket brains surgery. I'm serious. I don't want to maintain my OS. I don't want to be interrupted by it. I want it to just work and work without any issues. Right now, I just disable all updates and hope nothing bad happens. I tried the rolling updates thing but it was both extremely annoying and it screwed up my settings. Sure security bad blah blah but I don't really care, I just want my work done.

Maybe this points out the real problem... There's no way to buy Windows minus the unsafe crap, and still use it for regular work.

It's what the "pro" version should be, but isn't.

well of course everyone knows that all the smart uninterruptible rocket surgeons use linux nudge wink. It's okay to not target every possible group under the sun. And to be honest windows is getting a bit too dumbed down even for me And that's what stings, I guess. For all the things they do wrong, they get the most shit for one of the few things they got right. Everyman user will delay updates forever so they must be forced to apply them.