[fghgfdfg]

These days I don't blame them. I'm guilty of it myself. After Microsoft repeatedly dropped in the Windows 10 "updates" (including nag) under new names it got to be enough of a hassle to avoid them that I've basically stopped updating. Finding the latest update names to ignore, then actually finding them in the update listing is enough of a pain to get me to continually put it off.

[razakel]

>These days I don't blame them. I'm guilty of it myself. After Microsoft repeatedly dropped in the Windows 10 "updates" (including nag) under new names it got to be enough of a hassle to avoid them that I've basically stopped updating.

My PC is next to my bed. I love being woken up at 3 in the morning by Windows attempting and failing to install updates.

It's got to the point where I turn it off at the power supply to stop it.

[tunap]

I tired of the 'whack-a-mole' game and just stopped installing post-March 2015 updates on my Win 7 install. It may be vulnerable(what isn't?), but 3rd party sandboxing, firewall and noscript mitigate the immediate, automated threats well enough(last succeasful exploit on my machines outside of a purposely infected VM: ~2009). When MS can no longer harvest my activities(or I can deny them control) I will revisit my security policies. Until then, I will continue to disable updates, harden my firewall and deny any contributions to MS* 's data grab.

* et al. Sadly, "everybody's doing it" these days.

edit:fixed asterisks and unwanted italics.