Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
I love the way he&#x27;s compared the people who tell you to turn off auto-updates with anti-vaxxers; it&#x27;s quite an apt analogy.<p>Microsoft shares part of the blame here for pushing features that the user clearly <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> want through updates (especially to the major OS version).  Look at the recent ads in Windows file explorer for one example.  A lot of the advice to turn Windows Update off is a misguided response to Microsoft&#x27;s own bone-headed moves in recent years to install bullshit that the user doesn&#x27;t want.<p>I still sort of regret installing Windows 10 to this day because of the obnoxious Cortana bar it foisted upon my start menu that I can&#x27;t get rid of.  And yet not installing Windows 10 would&#x27;ve left me less secure with an OS hitting EOL for security updates much sooner.<p>Microsoft definitely shares some of the blame for this precisely because they have automatically &quot;opted in&quot; their users to stuff they don&#x27;t want during past updates.  Stop the bullshit, Microsoft.