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Microsoft is Making It Easy To Stop Windows 10 Rebooting Your PC Randomly For Updates (theverge.com)
Tom Warren, writing for The Verge: Microsoft is unveiling some changes to the way Windows Updates are applied to Windows 10 PCs with the upcoming Creators Update. The software giant has long been criticized by Windows 10 users for its aggressive approach to applying updates, and it's introducing some new options to prevent annoying reboots. "What we heard back most explicitly was that you want more control over when Windows 10 installs updates," admits John Cable, Microsoft's Windows director of program management. "We also heard that unexpected reboots are disruptive if they happen at the wrong time." To stop these random reboots, Microsoft is adding a new snooze option that appears in a new prompt to let you know there's a Windows 10 update available. Snooze will stop an update installing for three days, and give you time to save any crucial work.
Oh it exisits, it's called Windows 7, which market share increased this month. Even Windows XP is still at 8% market share three years after end of support. This all shows the failure of Microsoft.
And what would happen if the Snooze button is hidden by some other service or if it disrupts another service at an unexpected moment? How many of us has been accidentally selecting "OK" on something just because we were typing some text in a word processing or something and don't know what we did click "OK" for?
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