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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Sorry. I assumed you weren't a Windows person because I have a perhaps false recollection of you saying on more than one occasion that you switched to Linux. Or preferred Linux. If you have never said anything remotely along those lines I am sincerely sorry.
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You have recollected correctly, but why on earth should that mean I don't
know things about how Windows works?
I am perfectly capable of both preferring linux and knowing and occasionally using* Windows.
This is because I am a multi-talented individual.
* -- my personal computer may run Windows, but the school computers and the ones that belong to friends**, do not.
** -- I help them sometimes. I am a nice person...
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And my subscription service thing was not specific in any way to Windows, and aimed at the several articles I have read that indicate this is a general trend/aim by Microsoft. But they do have a sort of a subscription service, and have had for several years whereby you receive all updates on one or more products including Windows 7 (which AFAIK you get for free anyway). Two friends of mine subscribe, paying annually or monthly, and can install n and update numerous devices/products for no other charge than the subscription. Apparently it is pretty easy to deploy on a fairly wide scale.
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Good for you.
It was not apparent from your post that you were talking about anything other than Windows itself.
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I don't call a reminder to reboot for it to work nagging.
It is the constant reminder that there are updates pending, that I dislike. maybe some people can turn it off by setting the options, but it hasn't worked for me.
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Awesome, we are in agreement. Incidentally, what do you call mandatory reboots when you are in the middle of working on something?
Now, back to the topic at hand -- did you or did you or did you not erroneously misinterpret my words to derive the conclusion that linux has mandatory "Updates are available"-type nagging?
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Last night I disabled updates by selecting never check for updates on my surface Pro 3. Turned of tablet and started it again. This morning there was a big blue update ready to install screen.
Helen
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File a bug report with Microsoft.