Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Is Windows Update Getting WORSE?!”.
So the question is our windows updates really so important that they should interrupt you in the middle of an all-night, study session or a hot webcam date at what point does mr. Gates just show up at your doorbell and go hey? Have you updated your windows yet? Well, whether we like it or not, that’s basically been Microsoft’s approach for a very long time. In fact, it was way back during the windows 98 era that Microsoft first introduced the concept of notifications. Whenever a critical update was available by having the operating system check, which updates were already installed against a list of new updates stored on a Microsoft server, every few minutes and what a useful new feature to ensure that you know, grandma isn’t going to be victimized by The latest ActiveX vulnerability.
The problem is that, as the years went on, more and more control was taken out of the hands of the user. Once Windows XP hit the scene update notifications became a much more frequent, especially that system reboot prompt after you reinstalled the update. That would bother you literally every 10 minutes to restart not to mention that the automatic update service was a massive resource hog for some reason, and often ground, slower computers to a standstill. So Microsoft did relax. This hit you over the head, Negi behavior in subsequent versions of Windows, and they fix some of the performance issues. But it’s still quite difficult to exercise.
Full control over Windows Update a huge source of frustration, especially if you have a slower, PC or one that you only use occasionally so that basically every time you sit down at it, it needs to perform a bloody update. I mean imagine this. What, if I just don’t want to be interrupted right now, because I’m doing something well in Windows: 7.
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