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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by tomjen3 on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:50PM (#33319141)
Not that I want to defend MS, but the longest I have ever seen it take to update is a couple of hours. Annoying, yes. Should it be user postponable? Yes.

Actually, it is user postponable, you can tell the update to wait up to 5 days by default. It should still allow you to wait unlimited time of course, but you can always press that button once.

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by jstarfish on Monday October 24, 2022 @02:33PM (#33320533)
They put more thought into their anti-piracy mechanics.

Want to compel a user to update/reboot? Mess with the aesthetics.

Disable their wedding-photo background. Change the UI to something horrendously ugly (pink-on-green?). Toggle high-contrast mode every hour.

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by Nihilartikel on Monday October 24, 2022 @04:49PM (#33322519)
5 days! How magnanimous of them! (Snark not directed at you personally at all) But I write as a person who once had to make idle chitchat with an audience of 300 for 8 minutes when a university presentation computer decided that it had to restart RIGHT NOW.
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by tomjen3 on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @03:05PM (#33334813)
That is almost certainly because the IT department configured it that way. Most IT departments are not very competent.
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