[nikanj]

Re:2, I've never had a mac reboot on me without my explicit decision to do so. Contrast with the countless times Windows has fucked me over.

Scenario: hook up laptop to projector etc, make sure everything works. Step out for 30 minutes to chat with people coming to see your presentation. Come back, just to realize Windows did the good old "say Uncle in 5 minutes, or I'll start installing updates" thing.

[retSava]

I run an app called Don't Sleep to stop this exact scenario. Auto-updates is one thing, rebooting the computer (and killing everything running) when you are running a long-running experiment is the inverse of peak happiness.

The app just lies in the background, does nothing else than this. Suspend/hibernate works as it should, it just stops auto-reboots.

[virtualized]

I wonder how Microsoft employees react whenever that happens in their own meetings. Do they just laugh and forget about the issue? Do they ignore it and quickly grab another computer? Do they use undocumented settings to fix the issue?

[nikanj]

They're running Enterprise Builds™, which actually let the users have some resemblance of control