Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

Post by conradfr » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 5:00 PM UTC

tokenizerrr wrote: post #27

mdek wrote: post #24

Will this address the absurd automatic updates/reboot "feature"? I've had the experience multiple times where a step away for a few minutes and come back to a blank desktop, even during the "active hours" period. This is especially infuriating when I do most of my work in a vbox slackware VM and win10 is just a host that I want to stay out of the way; instead I lose my entire current state. This seems like a major de…

Rebooting your computer daily will do the trick. Either shut it down at the end of the day, or give it a reboot. It will do its thing and leave you alone for the next 24 hours. Before you downvote me, which many of you have done already for some reason, please keep in mind that this advice actually works. It's not my decision to have things work like this. That's on Microsoft. But it does work, and is legitimate advi…

Post by basch » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 5:23 PM UTC

criddell wrote: post #84

silly_giraffe wrote: post #38

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Except for us crazy individuals that need the computer on for uninterrupted data processing. I have Windows only software that can take two weeks to complete a dataset. There is no intermediate data backup, so if the job is killed, I have to start over. My only reliable option has been to keep it off the network.

This is a prime use case for a workstation and it's hard for me to believe that Microsoft didn't expose better control over updates. More than a few times, I've come to work, wiggled my mouse and been greeted with a blank desktop. It's soooo frustrating that I need to spend the first 15 minutes of my day launching applications, loading projects, digging up notes, etc... when it was all arranged perfectly just a few h…

Post by fauigerzigerk » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 7:01 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #152

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #123

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Or Microsoft could use a pricing model that doesn't drive customers away needlessly.

Away to where? You mean the year of the Linux Desktop Workstation?

Post by csjr » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 7:57 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #124

HelloNurse wrote: post #93

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But realistically the clueless "normal" end users who should update automatically don't know about group policies and aren't going to use them, not even by mistake.

I used to regularly see advice shared around that if you got an SSL warning in Chrome when trying to visit Facebook, to just type "DANGER" in the keyboard, and everything would work again. I believe Google changed the workaround after a while because it was never intended to be used as a way for people to dismiss critical warnings without any real understanding of the risks.

Post by basch » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 8:21 PM UTC

criddell wrote: post #154

basch wrote: post #153

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its in group policy to not initiate a reboot if a user is logged in. my guess is microsoft doesnt care about people who dont read the documentation.

AFAIK, the machine reboots no matter what if the update has a deadline that's reached. I get what you are saying though.