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Windows 10 Will Soon Let You Opt-Out of Automatic Driver Updates (pcworld.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PCWorld: Microsoft is giving users some more control over Windows 10 updates, with a new beta build of its operating system released Monday. The build allows folks with the Windows 10 Professional, Education, and Enterprise versions to defer new updates for up to 35 days. In addition, the company will allow those users to decide whether or not they want to include driver updates when they want to update Windows. It's a move that helps respond to one of the key criticisms of Windows 10: that Microsoft's regime of forced, cumulative updates has caused problems for users with some configurations. This way, users can steer clear of updates they don't want to install yet and dodge problematic driver updates. The newly-minted update changes are just one part of the improvements added to Windows 10 with the build released Monday. Microsoft is also working on making the initial Windows 10 setup more accessible using Cortana. The company's virtual assistant can ask users questions at setup -- when they speak languages that it can understand -- and use those answers to configure devices. A small number of beta users will also begin to see a battery life experiment pop up on their devices. Microsoft is also giving users an easier way to connect to a virtual private network. Once Windows 10 has a user's VPN settings loaded, it's possible to activate the connection with the tap of a button without opening up VPN settings.
I already opted out of ALL updates in Windows 10 by opting out of Windows 10!
What about letting us choose everything we want to update?
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
OH THANK YOU my benevolent overlords from Redmond!
Please, let me lick your boots for granting me this unprecedented freedom!!
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
When will Microsoft allow me to opt out of the egregious data harvesting?
http://www.howtogeek.com/273824/windows-10-without-the-cruft-windows-10-ltsb-explained/
Did you know thereâ(TM)s a version of Windows 10 that doesnâ(TM)t get big feature updates, and doesnâ(TM)t even have the Windows Store or Microsoft Edge browser? Itâ(TM)s called Windows 10 LTSB, short for Long Term Servicing Branch.
Did you know there are other editions of Windows that give the exact same feature list you provided?
It's called Windows 7, or XP, or 2000.
And you know what those also have in common with Windows 10 LTSB?
You can't fucking buy any of them!
I included your linked article in the above quote, purely to copy/paste from your own helpfully provided article:
Unfortunately, thereâ(TM)s no legitimate way for the average Windows user to get it. Thatâ(TM)s no surpriseâ"Microsoft doesnâ(TM)t even want businesses using Windows 10 LTSB for most of their PCs
Even the enterprising company I work for is a couple hundred employees shy of the 1000 minimum employee requirement to qualify for enterprise licensing.
Not to mention the $2k/month fees and the $200/user account charges that come with enterprise licencing even if you qualify.
But have fun with the yearly audits by Microsoft lawyers that threaten to sue you for buying licenses and then using your software exactly as the licence dictates!
(From a different company I worked for before, I have a scanned letter from a court where Microsoft tried to sue us for having 12 users authorized on a SQL server that had 40 user CALs with receipts from their own "Open Licencing" store, and another letter a month later dropping the lawsuit. They did the exact same thing two years later. It cost us an additional $60k in legal fees each of those years for following the law!)
Enterprise licencing can and does cost you over a million dollars a year for the smallest of networks and user bases possible once you include the yearly legal fees.