Hah, couldn't help but laugh at that. I can only imagine what it has done, and the stories people have.
But let's all still remember to be civil, tounge-in-cheek stuff lol
lol ya ............. they are even worse than normal atm.
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Desperate times calls for desperate measures or how was it
Refering to the Midas comment just look at this list, all they do is buy out competition because they're incompetent themselves lol
The new 'style' is 'fuck the end user.'
@Baz
I'm sorry but I no longer agree with that thread. You can't blame the end user if they didn't do anything but update their machine. It shouldn't be our job to have to check ever update that m$ puts out, that is something for large organizations but not end users, not 'the little guy.' Its hard to convince my customers to continue to keep their machines updated for security purposes with stuff like this happening constantly.
As I mention, inversely it keeps me in business. But I think stuff like this isn't the end user, its m$, and perhaps one day they will pay for it in the industry.
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This is the exact reason I started looking at Linux last month. I've been a win user since win3.1. I understand issues arise. But I paid 100$ for a os not to be a tester..
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I think M$ is trying abit to hard to cram updates down our throats.
It's really frustrating at times having these untested updates forced upon you at times, luckily i've come mostly unscraped through them sofar, other then it bricking a intel compute stick which still had warranty, a while back.
And the sheer number of updates, dear lord.
Doesn't MS have a non-stable staging area? I feel if they had that for users who need those updates RIGHT NOW and willing to risk the untested status then MS would cop allot less flak. Most Linux distros do things that way.
Yes, Windows has what is called Fast Track updates I believe and Slow ring. Basically, Fast track is most recent updates, and then the slow ring I think is the most stable.
Don't quote me on it, I could be thinking of something else, but I know it's similar. I run slow path on all of my systems except the one machine I used when I was an Insider for early Win 10.
They should just make a pacman wrapper, and gpl the windows update. At least the updates would install in a reasonable amount of time.
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windows is for masochists who enjoy getting fucked rituallistcally every first tuesday of the month. fucking weasels man how can you guys tolerate that bullshit. Boil the frog.
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Lol, I love you :P
Not pointing any fingers mind you
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[Tinfoil hatt on]
Well the roll up update packs for Windows 7 and 8.1, i´m not really sure what to think of those.
Because you can either choose not to install any updates, or install all the updates including the ones with backported temeletry tracking services and what not.
So yeah..... i personally dont see any usefull improvements.
[Tinfoil hatt off]
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It's too bad no one has taken the time take the telemetry out of the rollups. But as Grassyloki said, it is driving Linux adoption. It still won't be enough people though. Linux has to pretty much be idiotproof to rival the market share Windows has.
This is kind of exactly what I was thinking. We're either stuck with no updates, or hoping that they aren't pulling any more bollocks.
I think it's more than idiot proofing, at least for many here, it's full game adoption. Sure we could dual boot, but it would be a lot nicer if we could just boot into one OS and play any game we like. Then there's anyone who uses certain programs for work, could always have a work PC separate, or learn a linux equivalent if possible, but I'd say that's easier said than done. There's also just a general understanding of where everything is, it's going back to square one instead of knowing it like the back of your hand. It's like the person who gets the new car, and decides they hate it because it's not their old car instead of trying to just get used to it and figure things out.
One thing that I have always fucking complain about if you update and shutdown why the fuck does the computer need to configure itself for x amount of time when you turn it back on again?
I thought the entire Goddamn point of updating before you shut down automatically was to get all that crap out of the way in a time when it's not going to waste the user's time
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KuramaKitsue,
It's because some of the stuff being updated, can only be updated or changed before windows acutally starts up. Most the time in Windows, if you have a program running, you can't alter it. So, windows has to literally start back up and install stuff before important Windows components start back up.