But that forced approach only worked on the people who had auto-update enabled. For people like me who had WU disabled it didn't affect me at all.

> For people like me who had WU disabled

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Yes. This is the reason it is so hard to disable WU now. YOU are one of those reasons.

> forced approach only worked on the people who had auto-update enabled

Also I want to hear what kind of magic should they used to do that on people with WU disabled.

There's a reason WHY people disabled WU. Microsoft might consider that, before going with heavy-handed approach.

I would've been one of those people, if I'd ever had a security breach. At this point I've been saved so much time and hassle not putting up with Microsoft's nonsense I could spend a month dealing with a stolen identity and I'd still come out on top. Of course I'm not one of the numpties that runs untrusted JS in my browser or installs rando programs.

> Of course I'm not one of the numpties that runs untrusted JS in my browser or installs rando programs.

You, as the other people in this thread, are forgetting/don't think what 90% of the Windows userbase struggle to distinguish between a click and a double click.

Personally I'm not fond on how and where MS directs Windows for the last 8 years, but it's becames totally understandable when you take the sheer number (and ignorance/stupidity) of the userbase.

Also the fact that WU breaks things. Might be worth considering that.

> mandatory iTunes activation

Did macOS ever have mandatory activation? Because I have used it for a long time and have never needed that. You need some way to get a new OS version, which was buying a new macOS version on a disk (back in the day), then on the app store, and then it was a free upgrade from the app store. But you never needed an account to run the actual OS.

iOS, not OSX