I had to maim the Windows Update process to keep it from freezing my computer whenever I tried to use it.
Clearly right when the user logs on is the correct time to install updates — pinning the HDD to 100% use and preventing the user from accomplishing their task. After all, Microsoft is more important than the user and their needs come first.
…where is the improvement supposed to be?
Windows update for Windows XP got worse than that. It would churn your drive for hours, but not make progress. There was an update to install manually and then you were good.
But if you're running Windows 10 off a hard drive, you need to replace it with an SSD. Although, I guess you can probably blame that on Nadella, the mass layoff that included essentially ending the developer-in-test QA program was June 2014, and Nadella became CEO in Feb 2014. IMHO, quality dropped significantly since then, especially quality on hardware developers probably don't have or don't use (like hard drives and Windows Phone)
Microsoft gets blamed when users don't install updates and their systems get owned.
In either case, Microsoft gets blamed.
- in one case, Microsoft seizes control from the owner performing unwanted actions that make the machine not function
- in the other case, Microsoft didn’t do anything; people turned off a feature they can turn back on
There’s a difference there important to free society.
This thread started off with my customer complaint that Windows stops me from using my PC to play games.
The typical customer does not understand what an OS update is, or what it entails.
They know "man, my computer freezes" and "man, I keep hearing about this vuln/oh no I got my hard drive ransom'd"
Those are the people Windows primarily has to appease, otherwise they have the problems that Linux does.