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Imagine the Car Analogy.
At night gremlins will "update" your car's engine and in some cases render your car completely inoperable.
These gremlins are sent out by the car manufacturers themselves.
Now, instead of just saying, "If you want the gremlins, send us a postcard and the gremlins will come out each night and "upgrade" your engine", they say,
"The gremlins will be out and if you really don't want them then you'll have to install new locks on your car and hood."
What!?!
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It galls me to say this, but Microsoft has a point.
Microsoft is right in saying that the overwhelming majority of home users installed Win7/8/8.1 with Windows Update set to Automatic. The new requirement to accept all updates makes sense in this environment.
For the few curmudgeons (you know who they are  ), Microsoft has now provided a tool that allows them to pick and choose their updates (similar to the manual settings of Win7/8/8.1).
It remains to be seen how much real control is given over updates. Will security updates still be mandatory? What happens if a security update is contingent on another, unwanted, update?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Totally believe that is correct.
However, my issue is that when I turn the auto-update features on then Microsoft downloads the thing right as I'm attempting to do something on my machine that I want to do and generally kills it.
Then it starts installing on its own time schedule and kills me more.
i always keep my machine updated, but I also like to look over the updates that it's pushing too.
That's why I like to say, notify me so I can review what and when you are going to update.
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SSD + MultiCore means that anything short of video encoding type workloads won't be noticeably impacted by background activity. Then it's just a case of reboot when you're ready.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: SSD + MultiCore
"Hardware means never having to say your sorry." ~Microsoft 
I agree with you and I run an i7 with 8Gb ram however, so far I did cheap out and got a spinning disk for storage. I know... I know...
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I give up.
I have 7, and 53 1/2, have automatic corrupdates off on all machines
and won't budge from here.
MS is NOT TO BE TRUSTED NOW.
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Vulnerabilities in the Android multimedia framework allow attackers to remotely compromise devices with ease, a researcher said. Watch this video (on your phone) to find out how!
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There is a core component called "Stagefright" on Android phones ? 
really ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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This is extremely interesting for at least 2 major reasons:
1) It is extremely easy to write a service -- which most users wouldn't even know is on their phone -- which responds to SMS messages running other code (providing a backdoor)
2) Most users have no idea what all of those System Permissions messages mean.
When I install something I just say,
yes,
yes,
YES!!!!
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newton.saber wrote: When I install something I just say,
yes,
yes,
YES!!!!
And then you smoke a cigarette.
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More than 1,000 experts and leading robotics researchers sign open letter warning of military artificial intelligence arms race. "Please put down your weapon. You have twenty seconds to comply."
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The methods you call can get different parameter values than you passed in. That would be an 'oops'
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This is why I hash the value of every parameter I send in to any method and then do a check on each value inside the method to insure it is correct.
Real Developers don't trust the OS. Especially Windows. THis is THE Year of the LINUX DESKTOP!!!
TROLLED!!! I'm kidding.
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Dang. And here I thought that we were in the year of the Linux desktop. I is sad. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: here I thought that we were in the year of the Linux desktop
Good point! This is THE YEAR of the LINUX DESKTOP!!
I've been saying it so long, we finally got to the year and I forgot to update the calendar.
So what about next year? Whose desktop will it be then?
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Next year we can start on The Year of the Plan 9 Desktop! (Or maybe Hurd, I can't decide)
TTFN - Kent
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Good Grief!
That's a fun bug!
NOT!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The going rate for a stolen identity is about twenty bucks. Can I pay $25 to get it back?
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Yes, but you have to pay $25 to every hacker on the 'net. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Make an estimate on how many times are you are distracted during an average work day. 1/0
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I sit in an office from nine to five, but what's this "work" thing I keep hearing about? 
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I'm distracted 100% of the time, but that's not a waste.
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Right. The distractions are the good parts.
That's why we are distracted by them.
If they could make work as good as the distractions then we'd work.
They ought to figure that out.
But, they are managers and are distracted by other things.
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