I've noticed that there is a certain level of competency a person can attain in a subject where they think they have an advanced knowledge and hand out advice with a certain authority.
But in reality they are spreading dangerous misinformed information.
Windows's auto updates though can be annoying, ensures that the average computer is up to date. Like in the example of this article:
"If you had any version of Windows since Vista running the default Windows Update, you would have had the critical Microsoft Security Bulletin known as "MS17-010" pushed down to your PC and automatically installed. Without doing a thing, when WannaCry came along almost 2 months later"
The average user cares that their holiday photos, documents or credentials don't get stolen or ransomed.
> Windows's auto updates though can be annoying, ensures that the average computer is up to date.
> The average user cares that their holiday photos, documents or credentials don't get stolen or ransomed.
Are both true. However, windows updates also occasionally cause restarts in the least opportune moments (e.g. when you have unsaved work and left for the day), or make a restart take 40 minutes when you need your computer right now (in the middle of an important phone call). Both of these have happened to virtually every Windows user I know, prompting some of them to disable Windows Updates.
Other issues with windows updates are bandwidth abuse (getting Win10 downloaded automatically on metered mobile connection), breaking some software/drivers/configuration, or installing unwelcome telemetry spyware. Each of these only happened to one or two persons I know.
The average user now keeps all their holiday photos on their mobile phone / cloud, but they do care about documents and credentials.
You are not wrong, but the way Microsoft Update behaves, you have to choose the lesser of evils (potentially get ransomwared, vs potentially avoid things listed above). It is not patently clear that Windows Update is universally the better option.
And it wouldn't be a choice between evils in the first place, if microsoft didn't try to advance their agenda by stopping the practice of "security updates" vs "other updates". Microsoft deserves all of the blame for the disdain to Windows Update, and therefore a big chunk of the sorry state of its users.
Most people don't get any Windows education. They use it at home for years, write on their resume, they know Windows and the Office Suite and say this is their advanced knowledge.
On the other hand, this is how I started programming when I was 15 :D
But well, I didn't write it in my resume till I finished my CS degree.
But in reality they are spreading dangerous misinformed information.
Windows's auto updates though can be annoying, ensures that the average computer is up to date. Like in the example of this article:
"If you had any version of Windows since Vista running the default Windows Update, you would have had the critical Microsoft Security Bulletin known as "MS17-010" pushed down to your PC and automatically installed. Without doing a thing, when WannaCry came along almost 2 months later"
The average user cares that their holiday photos, documents or credentials don't get stolen or ransomed.