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Subject: Re: Now I absolutely know why Windows 10 completely sucks
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Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> wrote:
[...]

>    Did you know that corporate customers ("enterprise") who buy
> multiple seat licenses can control their own updating? The Home
> and Pro versions of Windows are now an unpain army of beta
> testers. If something is going to brick the system, Home/Pro
> customers with auto-update enabled will find out first. Meanwhile,
> the corporate customers have their own IT staff, doing the testing
> that MS should have done, before they roll out any changes to
> their fleet.

  Nothing new there, corporate customers have been doing that (or have
outsourced it to other service providers) ever since Windows NT (and
probably before).

  A tad risky to let 100K 'seats' update themselves, without testing
those updates first.

  (Yes, 'we' had 100K seats (probably way more, but at least that
many).)