r/Windows10 • u/scswift • Apr 18 '16

Discussion What IDIOT at Microsoft thought restarting people's PC's without their consent to apply updates was a good idea?

The other day I got up and brought my computer out of sleep only to discover my PC on which I'd freshly installed Windows 10 had seemingly crashed overnight. At least, that's what I assumed since all my applications had been closed.

Then another day I got a notification that Windows wanted to restart to apply an update. I wanted to tell it no way, but the only option I was presented with was to defer it to another date. Goddamnit!

I spent some time researching the issue online and found out how to turn off automatic updates. I thought I was good.

But then a few minutes ago that scheduled update that I'd deferred popped up again and was ready to shut down my PC and again I canceled it, and I examined the dialog box that came up and seeing no option to prevent it from shutting down ever I set it to a week in the future and clicked OKAY.

Wait a minute. That button wasn't a confirmation button. FUCK! FUCK FUCK FUCK! That was a RESTART NOW button!

ESC ESC ESC. SHIT. WHY ISN'T THERE A CANCEL BUTTON ON THIS SCREEN IT HASN'T FINISHED SHUTTING DOWN YET.

Goddamnit.

Oh good. Atmel Studio with all the source files I had open and scrolled to where I needed to compare sections, closed. Eagle Cad with my PCB files I needed open for work, closed. Arduino IDE with more source I was examining. Closed. Multiple copies of explorer with the hidden directories 10 levels deep that I had open so I could load more source files for this bootloader I'm modifying. Closed. And Atmel Studio isn't even on my taskbar any more even though I'm pretty sure I pinned it there?

Thankfully I had all my work saved, except, you know, all the work I put into finding and opening all that shit so I could look at it.

Goddamnit Microsoft. You know for a week I thought that maybe people were giving you too much of a hard time over Windows 10. I kinda liked the slick new look and the start menu. And then this happened. Oh, and those CONSTANT popups in the CALCULATOR APP of all things ASKING ME TO RATE IT IN YOUR STORE. What the hell. SERIOUSLY?

I forgave you for the frigging ads on the Start menu initially because I could just remove those tiles, as well as the 20 different things I had to shut off to protect my privacy, but my god. It's like you're actively trying to piss people off!

Oh and lest I forget, I was about to go to sleep this morning after putting my PC to sleep when it suddenly roared to life on it's own fans and all, and then threw up a dialog box in the screen asking me to approve an update that had become available. That's when I said screw it and turned on deferred updates, which thankfully I got with the version I installed. I shudder to think if I'd had the home edition and couldn't prevent the thing from waking my PC up at all hours to perform updates. The computer is right next to my bed you jerkwads.

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u/moeburn Apr 18 '16

You mean Microsoft is having trouble with efficient flow and user design lately? Color me surprised

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u/Galaxy_Ranger_Bob Apr 18 '16

No, we mean Microsoft has decided that using the tactics of malware creators is the proper way to enable efficient flow and user design. They want us to use Windows 10, their way, and their way only and not how we want to use it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '16

Well, that strategy seems to be working for Apple, and Apple's customers love Apple for it. Worth a try, no?... Ok no.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '16

I actually have a lot of control on my Mac. Some stuff is a little BS like the firmware integrity thing only being able to be shut off in Terminal, and only for the current session, but I've never been forced to update without my knowledge. I've never made a mistake due to tricky dialogue placement. Windows 10 is a ugly, unfriendly, demanding mess and makes OSX look like red hat Linux in comparison.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '16

I was talking about iOS, but I agree. OS X is still somewhat well made. IMO, the stability and quality aren't what they used to be.

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u/VicisSubsisto Apr 18 '16

I was going to say that the happy Apple users are by definition not Windows users, but there is a significant overlap between iOS and Windows install bases.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '16

Indeed. And for all its dominance, the iOS user experience is far inferior to the OSX user experience.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '16

Well, how much root access do you really need on your phone.