Originally Posted by
MG23
We had something similar at work a few weeks ago. Boss plugged laptop into projector to go through list of open bugs, turned it on.... and Windows was installing updates for ten minutes. Fortunately we had other things we could talk about, but there's a reason most of our systems run Linux.
The same happened to me at work a few times, and it seems to be a very common issue that winds up a fair few Windows users, so why can't Microsoft fix it?
The advice at work was to turn off automatic updates whenever you were bothered by it, but that then resulted in people forgetting to turn updates back on again (me included). Now I'm retired I only have one Windows machine, needed to run AutoCad, but that one machine causes me more frustration than the three Linux machines, my Android tablet and my wife's iPad all put together.
Surely there has to be a way for Microsoft to make Windows just update in the background, without interfering with what you're working on or needing you to stop work altogether and reboot the machine? If Linux can do it in the background, with no impact at all on the user, and has been able to for as long as I've been using it (around 3 years now) then there has to be a way for Microsoft to do the same.
Apart from the privacy issues surrounding Windows 10 (and updated versions of 7 and 8), the update nuisance is probably one of the main reasons I'm not going to get another Windows machine again. I doubt that I'm alone, either, as it seems that more and more people are getting a bit fed up with Microsoft. It's a shame, as I think that they have produced some excellent software in the past.