Doktor Avalanche

dubdisciple
Forced updates can me nightmarish for those working in professional environments. Couple years back MS did an update that that totally screwed many video editors. It conflocted with a of video cards and had to be removed. Subsequent patches fixed it months later. Most rolled back until then. If that update had been mandatory I would have been unable to work for a month or two.

If you had done backups you would have been fine.

I was fine. i think you missed the point   i was able to rollback but did lose a few days troubleshooting the issue.  Unfortunately, it was the kind of bug where the connection between the update and the bug were not obvious at first.  Once word got out what the problem was it was a simple master of rolling back, but a mandatory update may not allow that option.  Even if Ms fixed it the next day, people in deadline critical businesses could be screwed. Considering it took about two months for MS to fix that bug last time, it could be a major issue if rollback is not an option

Doktor Avalanche
Yup but what people forget is you can rarely predict an update for you isnt going to work until you install it. If MS makes sure everybody installs updates in the same sequential order it's gonna be a heck of a lot more predictable.

If it's a critical business scenenario you should have just restored from backup or rolled back. Ain't that hard. You would have just done it and not bothered troubleshooting if it was that critical. It should not have been that hard to work out that you installed an update recently...

MS I'm sure will allow updates to be rolled back in Win 10. They aren't that stupid...

that is some serious condescension .  maybe you instantly rollback when the slightest glitch in your computer occurs, but it is a huge assumption to think that is the norm. There are lots of possibilities when a computer acts up. Some of them are a result of updates and some are the result of any number of things. Again, i digress because no production house on a tight schedule wants to have to rollback for an unwanted update because no matter how easy it is, it is still a delay.  You also give MS too much credit.  There are tons of bugs that will inevitably be introduced on updates that will take longer than anticipated.  Adobe's latest update has massive flaws that make certain products unusable  They also let us know the update would take 6 weeks to fix.. Fortunately the update is not mandatory.

Here is the text of the relevant section from the license agreement:
 
Automatic updates. For consumers and small business, Windows 10 delivers automatic updates, with no option to selectively delay or reject individual updates. "The software periodically checks for system and app updates, and downloads and installs them for you. ... By accepting this agreement, you agree to receive these types of automatic updates without any additional notice." Business customers have additional management options through the Windows Update for Business program, and enterprise customers can assign mission-critical devices to the Long Term Servicing Branch, which includes only security fixes and not feature updates.

So is there a way to refuse or postpone updates?

Right, and it's a free upgrade from Win 7 and 8 Pro. 

Rubbish. Reason why it skipped to version 10 is because it is 1 louder.

The marketing guy who thought of that died in a bizare gardening accident.

you do wonder how ms is going to make money... maybe from apps and using it with the mobile / cortana etc.
 
they know not to annoy customers e.g. the start bar and other "not to good" versions.. so they have to balance things.
 
the dual boot thing, .. in the sense of what about monopoly rules ? they might find that gives them issues, regardless of what end users agree to