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Basically what Marc said.
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Used every 1-5 minutes - Web Browser - quick/seamless updates when I restart software
once per hour - SQL Management Studio - 1 minute update - let me choose when
once per day - Windows 7 - let me choose when to update and applied on shutdown.
need computer now for fix - No updates - Windows 10 I hate you, why are you apply the updates and so slow "welcome you have updates" login. Just boot up with a notification that updates are made.
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Well, it depends whether the update is comming from today's Microsoft.
Last Sunday after updating VS2017 to latest update, I found I cannot add vertex and pixel shader file to my DX project. According to this thread, the fix is in the VS2019 Preview! Who knows what else is broken in VS2019 Preview. Lucky, there is a workaround.
Last year, I cannot run VM from Hyper-V manager which was fine the day before. The workaround is to launch the VmConnect.exe with admin rights manually. And VS Code is not opening a folder where subfolders has JSP and C files after update. Before that, it was working.
The joke is I am not even a power user. I only use basic features and they kept breaking on every update. Now I cringe the moment update is done.
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We should not have to incorporate workarounds and voodoo magic in order to get the job done. Microsoft is consistently getting worse at releasing unstable/untested updates into the wild.
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Well, me thinks Microsoft is doing it's job quite great. If you have a certain amount of people, who cannot escap... i mean jump off the boat and change their IT strategies, then you can start to bring down costs, reduce service, quality, etc.
Monopoly, the lack of competition and the US capitalism leads us to exactly that situation. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, they don't need to be "good", kind, of best service. They don't compete anymore. So the management does exactly what it's expected to do.
Just my 2 cents.
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CS@F wrote: So the management does exactly what it's expected to do.
And that's exactly the biggest problem.
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Not very interested in how often they come, but the risk they present.
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That's my preference.
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The security professional in me likes regular patches and concepts like continuous delivery that allow us to "buy" management support with metrics.
But the developer in me likes larger, well tested patches, and hates this whole "fix after release" mentality!
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Security/Bug Fixes - not really updates. They need to happen because of what they are, now, not later.
Adding/Enhancing Features - now and then, it's OK - and should be optional if it's something not used
Major - really, a version change. If they don't maintain backward compatibility they can go to hell. It's not the install that gets to me - it's the fixes of code bases because perfectly good code (or even imperfectly good) is now suddenly no longer supported.
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...for some of our big on-premise systems, like Jira, Confluence & Co I would not want to have to update them every two weeks.
For mobile Apps I don't care too much, most of the time I click on "update all" anyway without reading the patch notes, because most devs don't care to write good patch notes these days.
What really makes me crazy are the overfrequented updates to visual studio every other week. As a developer I want to have a as-stable-as-possible environment.
Android Studio does it way better with only (roughly) 2 updates per year. The small packages or emulator updates are not a deal, but studio itself with build system and all stuff comes only twice a year and this is fine.
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That is fact.
May I point you to the Visual Studio 15.9.4 update. It was a smaller update, compared to other updates, and it f***ed a lot of stuff up. Why? Because it was not thoroughly regression tested.
Frequent, smaller updates are my preference, but this ONLY works if it is constantly tested in that short amount of time.
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That's what she said 
Joking aside, I prefer smaller but more frequent updates than large ones that take an entire afternoon to install.
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Working and tested updates, that don't mess with my data, the drivers of used hardware or the settings I have selected
That's are the ones I prefer.
And if I can choose whether to install them or not... even better.
So I chose: Depends on lots of things
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Things were better when getting fixes out was difficult so developers put out high quality code the first time.
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The culture of updates have all but ruined console gaming for me. 
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