Pretty much from beginning of using Windows 10 I don’t like how it installs updates. Microsoft have to solve two different problems:

  • Promptly install important updates that includes critical security fixes
  • Install updates in the way that is least interrupting user work

To be honest Microsoft only solved first problem. Second problem works kind of opposite. Let’s discuss it in detail.

In the beginning Windows 10 was just install updates at time when Windows 10 likes. I heard many times from my colleagues that they connected notebook to projector and Windows 10 started to install updates for like 2 hours. It still doing it in cases when notebook was switched off for few weeks. We don’t use notebooks