My reading suggests that it might be possible to disable all updates
by turning off the update service the way you can turn off and
disable any service in Windows. However, I have also read that some
kind of trolling "error detection" feature will eventually find this
and turn the service back on, though it might be possible to deal
with this by following an appropriate maintenance schedule.
I will want to go with the Enterprise version to gain maximum control
over this issue, but I'm not sure how this will be handled since it's
only available for bulk licenses, and I don't always need to buy more
than one machine at a time.
The level of complaints about forced updates has been so high that I
bet this is one of those things that MS will quietly "disappear" via
a registry setting or something pretty soon.
Beyond the fact that MS has a fairly poor track record of releasing
system-mangling updates that have to be rolled back, I am very
concerned that, because Windows 10 is the "last" operating system (I
know this is a marketing thing and not a real thing), forced updates
will allow them to "update" the OS out from under my applications and
force me to buy new things on their schedule instead of mine. Very,
very, very bad.
However, we just bought a bunch of Win 7 machines to keep as spares
to give us time for MS to respond to the deluge of complaints before
we have to buy any Win 10 machines for production. (I, of course,
will buy one this fall so I can start tinkering with it.)
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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