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.

 

[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.

 

[Amdlova]

The best way to fix it. Is stopping using Windows or Microsoft.
Got my old system running at full speed.
Working with windows xp x86 and windows 7 x86.
I Don't miss the microsoft store.

 

[Stomx]

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.

Exactly.

Most disastrous with Windows is its OS updates requiring you to close all your open apps with 100 tabs, permanently ON software, articles , unfinished for years papers. That alone makes me deeply hate Microsoft.

There is actually almost zero progress in MS OSes in decades ( the same true essentially with other OSes, including Linux) and the only what has some value with updates is their virus and critical vulnerabilities updates.

/... As to specific software updates with Linux which has its minuscule users base additionally spread over 30 distros - that is a disaster from the other camp. If you have many apps and will allow automatic updates then in a year or two your Linux will simply completely disintegrate (and for example blogger Chris Titus has in average 6 months almost any Linux OS life span). Windows here is a bit better - because orders more users per each app

As to WINE, first it is not an emulator (WINE comes from WI is Not an Emulator), when you succeed to install it, when it works, and after some time do not stop working, it may amaze and shock you. Specifically with BOTTLE. Better than standard Lose...I mean....Windows sometimes. That's how all OSes must be made in 21th century: you take any software for any OS, click on executable file and it works automatically like in native environment. WINE is such symbiosis of Windows and Linux

 

[snemarch]

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?

For most other software I use (except cloud-first crap - that's a topic for another discussion), I can choose to opt-out of software updates.

This ham-fisted approach from Microsoft is... not really surprising, but it ought to result in... the EU taking action, or everybody in the decision chain who OK'd this being lined up against a wall.

I'm sick and tired of choice and control being taken away from consumers. Yes, keeping applications updated is generally good for security, but there's many valid reasons to want to stick to specific software versions.

 

[bill001g]

This is all because there is no real penalty when some company no matter who they are pushes a faulty update. Even when you get a massive case that goes to court the companies insurance pays off, the lawyers get lots of money and the end consumer get a coupon for $.50 off their next purchase. If you got that and 1 customer then gets the right to use a fully charged taser on the CEO balls maybe they would care.

 

[umeng2002_2]

Another reason to avoid the Windows store.