As you probably know I own Microsoft Office 365 subscription. And one of the benefits that you got all new functionality updates that is released by Microsoft for free. And initially I actually got Office 2016, but it slowly transformed itself to Microsoft Office 365. And it is good thing and I saw a lot of changes small and big, useful and not so. But there is one moment that is really annoying during update to new version.

Update 17 Oct: I got issue with my hosting and I immediately got email that site is down and in one minute later I got notification that it is up again. So email notification is actually working.

If you have web site in internet sooner or later, you would like to setup monitoring to ensure that site is working and responsive.

Also, if you have site that has low number of visitors then on many hosting platforms your site will be unloaded after some inactive time. And usually startup time is quite long. Depending on hosting, software you are using and how big is your site startup speeds can be quite long. It can be 1-2 seconds long to up

Here is set of videos that explains this in detail from Hardware Unboxed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bD9EgyKYkU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25x2xPh7Kvo&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1vgfyw6cj0
 

Or alternative from Gamers Nexus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1mJMI_uaa8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL-JFh9BzH8
 

In short Intel ordered review of new Intel i9-9900K CPU for company that called Principled Technologies and allow it to publish result good 10 days before anybody else can publish own reviews because they are tied under NDA. In few days Intel published it on their own web site.

As you can see first problem here that Intel allowed publishing results way before other independent from Intel companies can publish their results. And a lot of websites simply repost this news because they

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