Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffled by updates

Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by derefr on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @05:41PM (#19267588)

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.)

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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by newen on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @06:07PM (#19267724)

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.

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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by etaioinshrdlu on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @06:29PM (#19267861)

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.

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