One of the changes in Windows 8 is new behavior related to automatic restarts when updates are installed.
In the latest post on the Building Windows 8 blog, Farzana Rahman of the Windows Update team explained what these changes are, and why they were made.
Farzana identified the sometimes frequent notifications from Windows Update as a common complaint among Windows Users. The main ... [ read the full article ]
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You are getting close to the behaviour of my linux boxes, which need to be restarted never but for hardware maintenance or certain major kernel upgrades... And that's how it has been in the linux world for over 15 years.
LoL...maybe, just maybe, they should try to make the updates install quickly so it isn't even a concern to most people. 99% of the public turn their computers off when they stop using them...how about making the updates install quickly so you don't need authorization for the 20 minute install of a 300K update?
Originally posted by dali: Wow, thank you so much, Microsoft!
You are getting close to the behaviour of my linux boxes, which need to be restarted never but for hardware maintenance or certain major kernel upgrades... And that's how it has been in the linux world for over 15 years.
a button "Begin Long Run Update could take many hours"
a checkbox "Shutdown on completion"
a checkbox "Restart after shutdown"
a button "Exit - I will update at another time"
This way I can backup whenever I feel like it and please don't remind me if I haven't "Updated" I don't want to.
I am not much worried about the updates as I work on these OSes for may only a couple of hours a day. I have yet to experience a straight 3 days uninterrupted operation of Win 7. Memory usage even on a x64, 6 GB machine climbs to 75 - 80% from initial 30%.
What is critical in my opinion is the abilty of the OS to query and ascertain if there are any available Homegroups on the local lan before blindly creating one and making life hell in trying to enable file sharing.
A shutdown button would also be nice to have SOMEWHERE instead of having to use Alt+F4 or Ctrl+Alt+Del.
