14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier today, we told you that users of Windows 10 Home would get Windows updates automatically and they wouldn’t have an option to delay their installation, which Microsoft says should help them keep their devices fully up to date.
While this could make sense at some level, Windows 10 users are now asking for options to defer Windows 10 updates in all versions, not just in the Pro SKUs.
A post on the Windows UserVoice channel, which has already received more than 220 votes despite having been published a couple of weeks ago, explains that Windows 10 consumers should be allowed to choose what to install, when to install because this way nobody can be forced into a feature they don’t like.
Patch Tuesday will live on in Windows 10
Despite the recent rumors, Patch Tuesday will continue to be available, so updates will still be released every second Tuesday of each month.
But only those running Windows 10 Home would get them automatically, Microsoft says, with Pro users getting options to delay installation and choose exactly what to install.
Users, however, complain that, due to this configuration, more computers could be impacted by broken Windows updates, just as it happened in the past, when Microsoft unknowingly released botched patches that were causing issues on the computers they were addressed to.
“Everyone needs control over the updates in Windows 10 based on past update issues. Please allow us to at least delay updates to have time to discover what issues others have found. Also, I need to use my computer when I need to use my computer, not when a company says I can. Patch download and application slows down my current Windows Vista computer so that it is almost unusable. The choice of when to apply patches has always been a key for me to be productive,” one user writes on UserVoice.
Of course, Microsoft still has enough time to tweak this behavior in Windows 10, but enabling options to choose what to install in Home editions is highly unlikely because the company clearly wants to keep them exclusive features of more advanced Windows versions.