What's with the Windows update thing? Do it manually, get up to use the restroom, get more coffee, and it should be booted up when you sit down again. I fail to see how many folks can be so critically busy to not let un update load.
I update manually whenever I see there is an update. Problem is that even with that, it still somehow manages to pop out at worst possible moments. Once I stepped away from my office desk for 30 mins, when I returned, Windows was restarting and some of my work was lost. Granted, I forgot to set up peak hours on my office computer, but either way, some variant of this scenario keeps happening to me at least twice a year no matter what I do. Just recently, I had a less critical but still annoying situation - I have a gaming PC connected to my TV, I was playing a game (with a controller) and a popup to update shows up and takes a quarter of the screen. I had to get up, grab a mouse, naturally I died, etc. Of course, not half as important as loosing my work, but you can imagine I was not happy.
Not enough? Here’s a really big one: in our studio, we have a lot of computers running 3ds max. Well, at one point, Windows updated and max stopped working. The best part - update was mandatory, you could not just decide
not to update, like you can on macOS. You know what Microsoft customer service said: contact Autodesk. And yes, technically they are right, it’s not their fault - but still, doesn’t help us.
And I have other Windows-using friends who can’t seem to understand why this is annoying.
Look, this Windows update system is crap. You can pretend it isn’t, it just is. I know why Microsoft is making it this way, it’s because people don’t want to update. A friend used to work at Microsoft at developer relations, he tells me the whole company has a strategically complex problem of having to constantly take care of PCs running prehistoric versions of software with people refusing to upgrade. This is their solution - taking away that choice from users. Windows is designed so that it will update, one way or the other. I understand this - but that’s not my problem. It just sucks. If you think it’s ok, you probably don’t know how well it works in macOS. Not only you‘re not forced to update, if you do decide to do it automatically, it will not interrupt your work and force close your apps, it will happen while your Mac is at sleep (good luck getting that to work in Windows). The best part - when you wake your Mac, you will literally find everything - from open apps to actual window positions -
exactly as you left it. If there weren’t for a subtle, non-intrusive notification (again, a concept Windows doesn’t understand), you wouldn’t even know it was updated.
