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I am glad that Windows is an opt-out of updates. We all know the majority of people never update anything. Personally I opt out and manually update my systems but most people just need it to happen.
Tell that to the person who got his personal files flushed automagically by a Windows update.
I'm always impressed by people's creative ability to put a negative spin on almost anything. Particularly to generate hate-clicks. In this case they're implementing Seamless Updates, which should substantially reduce downtime and improve roll-backs during update installation (a major complaint) but instead of focusing on the benefit, they focus on the disk space loss. The reason it takes up space on Windows, Android,…
it's a nice quality of life improvement unless you're running low on space. 7+ gb is a lot , especially on embedded devices with low soldered storage - like microsoft's own products! coincidentally instead of offering upgradeable internal storage they upsell really hard on the models with more storage in their surface lineup if anything, this should be a toggle- if only an opt-out toggle. fwiw, you can install a linu…
I'm assuming there will be a group policy setting I can change, though, since I'm lucky enough to have Windows 10 Pro...
I am glad that Windows is an opt-out of updates. We all know the majority of people never update anything. Personally I opt out and manually update my systems but most people just need it to happen.
The same applies to downloading large files, etc. I realize that updates are important, but it's even more important that I can actually rely on my computer.
Interesting... Microsoft is forcing everyone to update their machines for quite some time... I've noticed that MS is forcing updates on my machine about a year ago and out of frustration I asked about it on this forum four months ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029216 ) Please try it. Go to Computer Management/Services and Applications/Services and then stop and disable Windows Updates. It's a matter of…
Don't forget to also disable auto-updates in Chrome/Firefox, since they are enabled by default.
It's not a warning - this only affects new PCs shipped with the latest version, not upgraders.
I am glad that Windows is an opt-out of updates. We all know the majority of people never update anything. Personally I opt out and manually update my systems but most people just need it to happen.
When I set up Windows to encode a video overnight, and I wake up the next morning and the encode isn't finished because Windows decided to restart in the middle, I'm not happy. This basically means I can't use Windows to encode videos, period. (And no, setting Active Hours doesn't work, because the whole point is I want the videos to get encoded when I'm not active!) The same applies to downloading large files, etc.…
I'm also leaving the computer on for weeks and never had an unexpected reboot with this protocol.
It's not a warning - this only affects new PCs shipped with the latest version, not upgraders.
"at this time"
I don't understand why the updates take up so much space -- 7GB according to the article.