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I’m no Windows fanboy but I have to use it quite a lot, at home and at work. I don’t know what versions or settings you guys have set up but I’ve never had a Windows update I can’t postpone, ever.
In corporate managed fleet of PCs updates are pushed by the company internal management systems. Some companies give you a 24hours option, some others (ahem, power tripping sysadmins, I know, I was one) say "fuck you and your work, you install when I say so". It's not strictly a Windows thing, it's a company policy.
24h2 is now a forced upgrade
Me neither, until today...
Depends on the settings your IT has set up... Mine will let you put it off, but after a couple times you're left with no choice but to let it run.
That would be an user issue then. If I have an update I'll try to do it asap, if I can't then end of my shift.
Well for one, I'm not sure I consider it an "issue"... But yeah, it's absolutely 100% on me lol...
It's not always due to procrastination... Sometimes it's not convenient to immediately do it. If it's a long thing I'll just take a short break and go for a walk or something...
That also shocked me. Then again, Windows does suck pretty bad.
I have had several, but usually you had like 1 hour. Entreprise windoze 7 a couple of years ago, happened several times. There was also some update that bricked some 50% of the dell laptops lol, mine went through but my colleagues sweated bullets.
Now it's force restarting "outside business hours" or some crap. How stable.
I call BS on OP, just another ragebait made-up story.
Forced restarts haven't been a thing for years, unless the OP somehow badly setup their machine.