Automatic Updates Will Automatically Mess You Up
Tagged as: Jul 11As if users did not make enough errors on their own, Microsoft is making life even more troublesome. I’d like to know whose bright idea it is/was to automatically restart your computer after the automatic updates! Oh sure, they give you a random pop-up message that essentially says “push this button or we’ll blow up your computer.” And it will appear for about 1 minute. So don’t you get up thinking that you’d like to go to the bathroom or anything like that. Nix the coffee breaks or the fresh air that you might like.
Somehow they assume that you are not doing anything important. They don’t save the status of anything nor do they give you the option to opt out completely from automatic restarts. There’s a fine line between doing things for the benefit of the user and annoying them to no end such that they want you to just quit what you’re doing.
It annoyed me before, and it continues to do so. You’d think that someone at Microsoft would get annoyed with it and change it, huh? I guess they don’t get annoyed. They’re too busy being litigious.
//TODO: insert Apple fanboy snide Justin Long-type remark
//TODO: insert Linux fanboy superiority over all remark
//TODO: insert over-arching peace and love to all remark
i find it quite irritating that i need to give vista the ok three times to open a file i just double-clicked, but no warnings whatsoever or option to opt out of a restart.
@billy
Oh yeah that’s really irritating. I, luckily, am not using Vista. I have heard that it’s quite a pain in the butt because they are being so extra prohibitive towards security holes.
Of course, I don’t envy Microsoft’s position. They have a huge bull’s eye on their back and everyone is gunning for them. If they remain as is, they’ll get hacked to death. If they try to change it so that users aren’t stupid, they’ll irritate some of the same users.
It’s too bad they can’t just give the “super safe” version to the stupid people. Those people are ruining it for the rest of us.
I hate those automatic updates! They always seem to come when I’m playing Guild Wars (my only gaming vice). It slows everything down so badly I end up dying before I can do anything to heal myself. (How’s THAT for dramatic? Ha!)
Thanks for your comment on my blog, by the way!
@Jennifer
Yeah I must agree that it never fails to come at exactlyt eh wrong time. Based on my first read of your blog, I never would have taken you for a gamer! But I think that’s very cool, indeed.
Oh and thanks for visiting! I’m definitely planning on reading your blog some more in the future. In fact I just added it to my RSS reader.
I did an automatic update in Windows Vista, and then the volume control icon was gone from my desktop. Not a huge deal, but a pain in the neck.