Finally, the Windows 10 forced update retardation will cease.
Microsoft has announced that starting with the Windows 10 May 2019 Update, which will hit general availability late next month, users will no longer be forced to install new Windows 10 feature updates as they become available.
Because, as everyone has been telling them since they started with this shit, it breaks everything whenever they send another update. Sometimes printer drivers, sometimes the network, sometimes the PC itself. I run three networks in separate locations, two are business. Every new update, stupid little stuff breaks and I have to scramble. I can't even imagine what the IT department at a company like Proctor and Gamble or Ford has to deal with.
Note that it doesn't say they won't force *security* updates... but then, I don't have too much of a problem with that. As long as the security updates are small and targeted at just the security hole, I'm happy that all the people who don't have a clue about computers will end up with all security updates auto-installed for them. That way there are a lot fewer computers out there ready to be turned into bots on some script kiddie's network. Nothing is totally hack-proof given a sufficiently skilled and determined hacker, but evidence suggests MOST hackers are just script kiddies -- and auto-installed security updates do tend to mitigate the threat from script kiddies.
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