Is Windows Update Getting WORSE?!
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2019-05-06
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1,138 words · ~5 min read
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so the question is are Windows updates really so important that they should
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interrupt you in the middle of an all-night study session or a hot webcam
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date at what point does mr gates just show up
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at your doorbell and go hey have you updated your Windows yet
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well whether we like it or not
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that's basically been microsoft's approach for a very long time in fact it
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was way back during the Windows 98 era
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that microsoft first introduced the concept of notifications whenever a
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critical update was available by having the operating system check which updates
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were already installed against a list of new updates stored on a microsoft server
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every few minutes and what a useful new
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feature to ensure that you know grammar isn't going to be victimized by the
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latest activex vulnerability the problem is that as the years went on
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more and more control was taken out of
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the hands of the user once Windows xp hit the scene update
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notifications became much more frequent especially that system reboot prompt
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after you installed the update that would bother you literally every 10
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minutes to restart not to mention that the automatic update service was a
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massive resource hog for some reason and often ground slower computers to a
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standstill so microsoft did relax this hit you over
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the head naggy behavior in subsequent versions of Windows and they fixed some
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of the performance issues but it's still quite difficult to exercise full control
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over Windows update a huge source of frustration especially if you have a
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slower pc or one that you only use occasionally so that
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basically every time you sit down at it it needs to perform a bloody update i
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mean imagine this what if i just don't want
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to be interrupted right now because i'm doing something
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well in Windows 7 and 8 you can delay an
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automatic reboot but only for 4 hours
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and 3 days respectively and then in Windows 10 you actually can't decline
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updates of any sort now even patches
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that are considered non-critical now if you're running a business version
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of Windows 10 you are allowed to delay your updates there's just no such luxury
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for the average joe or jane running Windows on his or her home computer
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so why has microsoft insisted on making the process so overbearing i mean do
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they think we're all a bunch of idiots that can't maintain our pcs on our own
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you know what let's not get into that moving on then one of the most obvious
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reasons that updates are continually pushed out is to improve security
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although many folks wonder why microsoft can't just make a secure piece of
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software in the first place and at times this has been a valid criticism the fact
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of the matter is that with an operating system as large and complex as Windows
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there are many points of failure that the developers might not even know about
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that can get discovered by hackers later on i mean you think about how a commercial
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airplane has lots of redundant safety systems because there are so many
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critical parts that could potentially have an issue that develops down the
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road even if the aircraft was initially well designed so it's kind of like that and
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in fact microsoft even offers cash bounties for folks that are skilled
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enough to find and report security holes in Windows before the hackers do so that
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they can push out a fix the fact that this is one of the very
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rare examples where microsoft actually pays their users and not the other way
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around shows what a big deal patching security bugs is to microsoft
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but even so this doesn't quite explain why all of the updates rather than just
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the security fixes are treated as mandatory in Windows 10.
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well here's where we get into the big mentality shift it's a business decision
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microsoft treats Windows as a service now meaning that with rising internet
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speeds and reliance on cloud computing the company wants to ensure their place
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as the dominant platform by delivering significant upgrades in order to keep up
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with advancing technology and consumers who frequently buy new devices so you
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combine that with the fact that users have gotten used to their mobile devices
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following this similar paradigm of free updates and microsoft even went as
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far as to describe Windows 10 as the last version of Windows in that it'll
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just be continually updated rather than
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replaced by another version that you'll have to pay to upgrade to down the line
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so to ensure that users aren't getting left behind with this new business model
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plus their desire to make writing software easier for developers than it
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used to be back when Windows versions were much more fragmented microsoft has
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gone the route of making Windows 10 updates mandatory across the board
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so like i get it it's just that this can be a huge
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problem when microsoft forces users to install buggy updates like that one that
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deleted a bunch of people's data for better or for worse though it looks
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like this automatic mandatory version of Windows update is here to stay
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