Comment on if you're not going to let me do this microsoft then let me turn off auto restart all together.

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dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

If CrowdStrike has taught us anything, it’s that blindly trusting automation can be equally (if not more) disastrous.

It’s one thing to ask me to update, but give me options; including to not update. There are machines out there in the world that still run Windows 95. They are vital to manufacturing processes, and cannot be updated because they run software that is no longer updated and there is no inexpensive alternative. It happens.

While that may not be the case in this circumstance, the point is that it’s up to the operator to determine when it’s time to update, not Microsoft.

Anecdotally, the only reason Microsoft does this is because people historically do not update their software regularly. Why? Because it’s burdensome and problematic. Whose fault is that? I’ll give you three guesses; the first two don’t count.

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