so the question is are Windows updates really so important that they should
interrupt you in the middle of an all-night study session or a hot webcam
date at what point does mr gates just show up
at your doorbell and go hey have you updated your Windows yet
well whether we like it or not
that's basically been microsoft's approach for a very long time in fact it
was way back during the Windows 98 era
that microsoft first introduced the concept of notifications whenever a
critical update was available by having the operating system check which updates
were already installed against a list of new updates stored on a microsoft server
every few minutes and what a useful new
feature to ensure that you know grammar isn't going to be victimized by the
latest activex vulnerability the problem is that as the years went on
more and more control was taken out of
the hands of the user once Windows xp hit the scene update
notifications became much more frequent especially that system reboot prompt
after you installed the update that would bother you literally every 10
minutes to restart not to mention that the automatic update service was a
massive resource hog for some reason and often ground slower computers to a
standstill so microsoft did relax this hit you over
the head naggy behavior in subsequent versions of Windows and they fixed some
of the performance issues but it's still quite difficult to exercise full control
over Windows update a huge source of frustration especially if you have a
slower pc or one that you only use occasionally so that
basically every time you sit down at it it needs to perform a bloody update i
mean imagine this what if i just don't want
to be interrupted right now because i'm doing something
well in Windows 7 and 8 you can delay an
automatic reboot but only for 4 hours
and 3 days respectively and then in Windows 10 you actually can't decline
updates of any sort now even patches
that are considered non-critical now if you're running a business version
of Windows 10 you are allowed to delay your updates there's just no such luxury
for the average joe or jane running Windows on his or her home computer
so why has microsoft insisted on making the process so overbearing i mean do
they think we're all a bunch of idiots that can't maintain our pcs on our own
you know what let's not get into that moving on then one of the most obvious
reasons that updates are continually pushed out is to improve security
although many folks wonder why microsoft can't just make a secure piece of
software in the first place and at times this has been a valid criticism the fact
of the matter is that with an operating system as large and complex as Windows
there are many points of failure that the developers might not even know about
that can get discovered by hackers later on i mean you think about how a commercial
airplane has lots of redundant safety systems because there are so many
critical parts that could potentially have an issue that develops down the
road even if the aircraft was initially well designed so it's kind of like that and
in fact microsoft even offers cash bounties for folks that are skilled
enough to find and report security holes in Windows before the hackers do so that
they can push out a fix the fact that this is one of the very
rare examples where microsoft actually pays their users and not the other way
around shows what a big deal patching security bugs is to microsoft
but even so this doesn't quite explain why all of the updates rather than just
the security fixes are treated as mandatory in Windows 10.
well here's where we get into the big mentality shift it's a business decision
microsoft treats Windows as a service now meaning that with rising internet
speeds and reliance on cloud computing the company wants to ensure their place
as the dominant platform by delivering significant upgrades in order to keep up
with advancing technology and consumers who frequently buy new devices so you
combine that with the fact that users have gotten used to their mobile devices
following this similar paradigm of free updates and microsoft even went as
far as to describe Windows 10 as the last version of Windows in that it'll
just be continually updated rather than
replaced by another version that you'll have to pay to upgrade to down the line
so to ensure that users aren't getting left behind with this new business model
plus their desire to make writing software easier for developers than it
used to be back when Windows versions were much more fragmented microsoft has
gone the route of making Windows 10 updates mandatory across the board
so like i get it it's just that this can be a huge
problem when microsoft forces users to install buggy updates like that one that
deleted a bunch of people's data for better or for worse though it looks
like this automatic mandatory version of Windows update is here to stay
that is unless of course you switch to Linux
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