<story><title>Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/06/microsoft-suspends-windows-10-update-citing-data-loss-reports/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kens</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a tolerant person, but recently I switched from Windows to Mac because the forced Windows updates kept messing me up. One time I left a long simulation running overnight. In the morning, I was greeted by a computer that had automatically rebooted to install updates, killing my simulation. Another instance was my daughter&amp;#x27;s birthday party, where she wanted to show a movie. The computer decided to spend an hour doing updates instead. It seems like Windows has become an update engine that will sometimes also do computation for you.&lt;p&gt;My assumption is there&amp;#x27;s someone at Microsoft who gets a bonus as long as they keep presenting update graphs going up and to the right, and they don&amp;#x27;t care how much they mess up the Windows experience in the process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bArray</author><text>This is exactly one of the main reasons why I switched to Linux, it doesn&amp;#x27;t do anything unless I let it or ask it to - with few exceptions.&lt;p&gt;My anecdote: I was about to have an important meeting and needed to print off some sheets from my Windows-based netbook. The power was low (&amp;lt;3%), so I plugged in the charger and resumed it from hibernation. It had been offline for a little while up until then because of traveling. Seeing the power was plugged in and I was shutting the machine down going into the meeting, Windows presumed that right then was a perfect moment to perform a Windows update. That night I wiped it and put Ubuntu on there.&lt;p&gt;FYI the Linux experience has been mostly great. There&amp;#x27;s been maybe a problem once a year, with some driver or package issue - but most of the time it runs great. I can safely run anything on it overnight knowing that it won&amp;#x27;t decide to do anything on it&amp;#x27;s own accord.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/06/microsoft-suspends-windows-10-update-citing-data-loss-reports/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kens</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a tolerant person, but recently I switched from Windows to Mac because the forced Windows updates kept messing me up. One time I left a long simulation running overnight. In the morning, I was greeted by a computer that had automatically rebooted to install updates, killing my simulation. Another instance was my daughter&amp;#x27;s birthday party, where she wanted to show a movie. The computer decided to spend an hour doing updates instead. It seems like Windows has become an update engine that will sometimes also do computation for you.&lt;p&gt;My assumption is there&amp;#x27;s someone at Microsoft who gets a bonus as long as they keep presenting update graphs going up and to the right, and they don&amp;#x27;t care how much they mess up the Windows experience in the process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsync</author><text>&amp;quot;Another instance was my daughter&amp;#x27;s birthday party, where she wanted to show a movie. The computer decided to spend an hour doing updates instead. It seems like Windows has become an update engine that will sometimes also do computation for you.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is, unfortunately, also true of Sonos.&lt;p&gt;I would say that more than 10% of my attempted sonos usage is blocked by an update process.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re just turning on the news for 2-3 minutes while you pack up your things, that&amp;#x27;s a 100% outage for you.</text></comment>