The so called "security experts" are preaching about the immense dangers of disabling automatic updates. Never mind the time consumed involuntarily by consumers having to patch their systems every second week. Never mind the unsaved files, permanently lost, due to automatic reboots in the middle of the night. Never mind the havoc wrecked on production and development environments running multiple virtual machines. It's time the security people stepped down from their high horses and realized that automatic updates should never be enforced -- only strongly recommended. Developers and power users don't want to live in the Microsoft nanny state of supervised reboots -- not even if you're able to schedule them.
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The so called "security experts" are preaching about the immense dangers of disabling automatic updates. Never mind the time consumed involuntarily by consumers having to patch their systems every second week. Never mind the unsaved files, permanently lost, due to automatic reboots in the middle of the night. Never mind the havoc wrecked on production and development environments running multiple virtual machines. It's time the security people stepped down from their high horses and realized that automatic updates should never be enforced -- only strongly recommended. Developers and power users don't want to live in the Microsoft nanny state of supervised reboots -- not even if you're able to schedule them.