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Wait, Windows 8 is going to include forced restarts?

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http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/15/windows-8-gets-automatic-updates-enforced-restarts-after-72-hou/

Windows 8 is renaming the second week of every month. After "Patch Tuesday" comes "Gentle reminder Wednesday," "Polite yet firm suggestion Thursday" and "Automatic restart Friday". In order to keep everyone's system secure, Windows Update will download patches in the background before adding a notification on your lock screen that you're due a restart. If you haven't managed it within 72 hours, you'll be given a 15 minute warning to save your work and close up before it forces the shutdown -- unless you're watching a movie or conducting a presentation, it'll lie in wait for your next idle period to do it.
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Guess they're not even bothering with the pretense of claiming Windows Updates won't require a reboot any more. 😛

Still, no thanks. Might be good for the average person, but its still looking more and more that I'll be passing on Windows 8.
 
I think its about time. Required updates/secure machines are long overdue.. MS should also mandate updates to the latest browser.
 
IamDavid said:
I think its about time. Required updates/secure machines are long overdue.. MS should also mandate updates to the latest browser.
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There's a difference between a Required Update and a Forced Restart. Article says Forced Restart.

And too many corporations use older IE versions, there's no way they could force all to update to IE9.
 
Yup, the Bob/ME/Vista team is back up to bat at Microsoft once again. AKA- The House of Rotten Ideas.

Looks like I may be passing too until the 98/XP/7 team is up again to clean up the mess.
 
I see nothing wrong with the forced restarts. It does not do it right away, you have 3 days before it will, if you cant find the time do reboot once in 3 days then turn off the automatic install and just have them download but not install.
 
Your PC will only restart when security updates are installed and require a restart. That is, restarts will wait until the next iteration of Microsoft's regularly schedule Patch Tuesday. "Since security updates are released in a single batch on the second Tuesday of every month, you are then getting essentially one restart a month. This simplification helps in three ways: it keeps the system secure in a timely manner, reduces restarts, and makes restarts more predictable." Put another way, Microsoft is guaranteeing that your Windows 8 PC will restart at least one a month.

Automatic restart notification. Rahman says that once updates are installed that require a reboot, Windows Update will notify you of an upcoming automatic restart through a message on the login screen that will persist for three days. After three days, Windows Update will automatically restart your PC for you if you ignore the notification. But there is one important exception to this rule: If there are apps or applications running in the background, or if there is any potentially unsaved work, Windows Update will delay the automatic restart until the next time you come back to your machine and log in.

Notifications won't interrupt you. If you are in "presentation mode," playing a game, or watching a movie full-screen, Windows Update will not alert you about a pending restart. Instead, it will wait until the next opportune time.

Policies for businesses. As you might expect, businesses can control this behavior with Group Policies.


The above is a Quote from, http://www.winsupersite.com/blog/su...ows-8-minimize-windows-update-restarts-141281



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so if i installed the updates but want my pc to run for more than the next 3 days then i'm shit out of luck?!

it would be tolerable if it was done in a decent manner. windows can hibernate and resume where it left off .... why the fuck can't it hibernate the open apps, reboot, install updates then resume the apps where they left off? downloads resume where they left off, a video encode where it left off etc etc etc.

why can't they do that? too convenient for their users?
 
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