Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 'to prevent confusion'
I&#x27;m a tolerant person, but I switched from Windows to Mac because the forced Windows updates kept messing me up. One time I left a long simulation running overnight. In the morning, I was greeted by a computer that had automatically rebooted to install updates, killing my simulation. Another instance was my daughter&#x27;s birthday party, where she wanted to show a movie. The computer decided to spend an hour doing updates instead. It seems like Windows has become an update engine that will sometimes also do computation for you.<p>My assumption is there&#x27;s someone at Microsoft who gets a bonus as long as they keep presenting update graphs going up and to the right, and they don&#x27;t care how much they mess up the user experience in the process. Microsoft should reassign that person.