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axlee | 1 year ago

Windows Update has nothing to do with it.

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olyjohn|1 year ago

But it has created a culture of everything needing to be kept up to date all the time no matter what, and pulling control of those updates out of your own hands into the provider's.

whydoyoucare|1 year ago

True, especially when a reboot of Windows takes several minutes because it started auto-applying updates!

yellow_postit|1 year ago

How do you propose ensuring critical security updates get deployed then?

Especially if an infected machine can attack others?

Users/IT regularly would never update or deploy patches which has its own consequences. There’s no perfect solution—but rather there to accept the pain.

It’s a lot like herd immunity in vaccines.

p_l|1 year ago

Windows update actually provides sensible control over when and how to supply updates since I think Windows 2000 (definitely was there by vista time). You just need to use it.