Article 2AP7X With Windows 10, Microsoft doubles down on forced updates and reboots (save your work!)

With Windows 10, Microsoft doubles down on forced updates and reboots (save your work!)

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Cory Doctorow
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Windows 10 takes one of the most hated aspects of Microsoft operating systems -- forced, sudden software updates and reboots -- and elevates them to a sadistic art, with Win 10 machines suddenly announcing that it's update time and rendering themselves inoperable for up to an hour, wiping out unsaved work and locking users out of their computers while they're onstage, or in the middle of large file uploads, or livecasting, or completing a live test for college admission, taking notes during an interview, etc. (more")

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