Microsoft to make Windows 10 updates mandatory

Caring1 · Jul 30, 2015

Loosenut said:
George Orwell's 1984 is getting frighteningly closer and closer...

Closer?
It's already here.

hat · Jul 31, 2015

I wonder if this could be related? I have problems with my audio randomly completely cutting out (playing SUPCOM2, suddenly no audio is what happened most recently). I decided to pay the Realtek website a visit, and downloaded their drivers. The installer, apparently, uninstalls the current drivers, and reboots. Upon reboot, it... uninstalls the drivers again? I went through 4 reboots until I gave up and clicked cancel.

Could be some kind of fluke or error somehow, but since changing the setting in the hardware tab of advanced system settings to never let windows update install drivers, the realtek drivers seem to have installed normally.

broken pixel · Jul 31, 2015

Pill Monster said:
Ah right OK.

What RAID controller is it? I got AMD and after removing the 3.6.1 drivers and installing 3.02 things seem better. On W7 though, haven't used 10 for a while.

Its an intel ICH10 controller.

RichF · Aug 13, 2015

lilhasselhoffer said:
It's a lot like communism. Unless everyone is 100% equal, some people will be more equal than others...

All contemporary economies of note are more communistic than they are capitalistic. The allegedly highly capitalistic ones are just better at obscuring that fact. Pure capitalism is more out of our reach than pure communism is. The major difference is to what degree the masses believe that the welfare state for the elite enables them to become elites themselves. Consider that social class fluidity in the USA is near an all-time low.

That said, pure communism will never ever be reached because the entire point of law and government is to maintain elite privilege.

HWTactics · Aug 13, 2015

Not sure if this was already mentioned (12 pages of posts already!) but I just noticed tonight that you can no longer delay Win 7 updates more than twice now. The third time the delay button is grayed out. Taking a page out of Windows 10's book?

Grumble mumble...

RichF · Aug 13, 2015

HWTactics said:
Not sure if this was already mentioned (12 pages of posts already!) but I just noticed tonight that you can no longer delay Win 7 updates more than twice now. The third time the delay button is grayed out. Taking a page out of Windows 10's book?

Grumble mumble...

I guess Microsoft agrees with Google that the "do no evil" mantra is outmoded.

FordGT90Concept · Aug 13, 2015

So I tried playing a MPEG2-TS file using "Movies & TV" app. It erred saying it didn't have the appropriate codec. About an hour an half later, I started another MPEG2-TS file and this time, it worked. It must have automatically obtained the perquisite codec which I think is a good thing.

At the same time, Microsoft obtaining unstable drivers automatically is not a good thing.

I think it's a 50/50 thing. In some cases, it is great; in others, it is not.

Mussels · Aug 13, 2015

i really think they can resolve the issues in windows 10 with a few changes:

1. Allow users to set an internet bandwidth limit for the downloads (for those on crap internet), but no option to stop the security updates.
2. Make driver updates optional, but prompt users about them. No boot issues are just too hard for the average user to recover from, when they can just reinstall themselves.

R-T-B · Aug 13, 2015

RichF said:
That said, pure communism will never ever be reached because the entire point of law and government is to maintain elite privilege.

No, it's more basic than that. It'll never be reached because greed is fundamental to the human existence.

RejZoR · Aug 13, 2015

Gone back to Windows 8.1 and working with updates is absolute joy. That Win10 forced updates f**kery is annoying as hell. I sometimes wonder who decides for such stupid things and gets paid a 5+ digit value a month...

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