News Microsoft Store change removes the ability to stop App updates — pausing automatic updates now limited to a 5-week duration

[Admin]

Microsoft wants to keep you safe by ensuring that you always update your apps.

Microsoft Store change removes the ability to stop App updates — pausing automatic updates now limited to a 5-week duration : Read more

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Tell me something Jowi: How is this any more "risky" than using an application that features an automatic updater? How is it going to lead to any more "buggy" updates than it did before just because it's being sourced from the Microsoft Store instead of the dev's website directly?

Defend your stance, don't just bash Microsoft like you do in so many of your "articles".

 

[abufrejoval]

Defend your stance, don't just bash Microsoft like you do in so many of your "articles".

No need, no amount of M$ bashing needs needs defending... especially since nobody there cares about PC owner choices.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

No need, no amount of M$ bashing needs needs defending... especially since nobody there cares about PC owner choices.

It does when the whole premise of the article that is based on a machine translated German article is "MICROSOFT DOING BAD THINGS AGAIN!" and accusing third party app developers of being able to potentially push through faulty updates more frequently than they do than apps with a built in updater, and even somehow trying to connect this to the Crowdstrike outage which is in a completely different league.

 

[abufrejoval]

It does when the whole premise of the article that is based on a machine translated German article is "MICROSOFT DOING BAD THINGS AGAIN!" and accusing third party app developers of being able to potentially push through faulty updates more frequently than they do than apps with a built in updater, and even somehow trying to connect this to the Crowdstrike outage which is in a completely different league.

I guess we Germans just don't feel all that well treated by M$ these days 😎 (and nearly everything else US)

Especially after far too many elected officials here have had their opinions altered by M$ lobbyists. M$ has been raking in billions from this side of the pond and somehow we expect a return: silly us!

I'd say that more than 90% of us believe that Windows 11 should just run on those very high quality Windows machines we bought over the last decade or two: we don't believe in chrome monsters that rust away within three years (nor in Chrome).

And then M$ quite simply sucks in every which direction you care to look at it (and all your data as well). Plenty of US citizens being in perfect agreement as far as that is concerned.

P.S. BTW nobody needs machine translation for English on this side of the pond: I don't know if you guys are aware of just how unilateral many language gaps are...

 

[MoxNix]

If it wasn't for one game and a few development programs I need that don't run natively on Linux I'd drop Windows in a heartbeat. It's getting to the point I might have to see if they'll run well enough under Wine or some other emulator.

For that matter I don't want any MS store apps at all. I don't want their stupid browser, telemetry/spyware or any of the other bloatware junk they continually come up with new ways to force on users whenever we manage to remove or disable them.

It's my machine I paid for it not MS. I'm sick and tired of MS trying to take control of my property from me.