The people that actually keep up with these updates are the same people that use McCaffee and that enable encryption on their WIFI routers; they are the slightly-savvy citizens of the Microsoft community, and are a minority--and are probably already protected from these exploits beforehand, by some third-party software somewhere. While everyone else, that doesn't have the time or know-how to protect their PCs are the ones getting hurt the worst by these vulnerabilities. I think updates should be forced by this Operating System, kind of like how AOL back in the 90's wouldn't let you sign off a session and release your modem till you had downloaded their damn updates (which I am--even till today-- convinced were ad-packs).
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The people that actually keep up with these updates are the same people that use McCaffee and that enable encryption on their WIFI routers; they are the slightly-savvy citizens of the Microsoft community, and are a minority--and are probably already protected from these exploits beforehand, by some third-party software somewhere. While everyone else, that doesn't have the time or know-how to protect their PCs are the ones getting hurt the worst by these vulnerabilities. I think updates should be forced by this Operating System, kind of like how AOL back in the 90's wouldn't let you sign off a session and release your modem till you had downloaded their damn updates (which I am--even till today-- convinced were ad-packs).