[on_and_off]

Just my anecdotal experience but Windows stopped me while I was doing something by suddenly rebooting the machine. The update took ages, well, more than 30 minutes, still very annoying.

In the end, the visible change was the addition of Edge and Cortana .. A good way to make me decide to never use these 2 apps.

[simion314]

Agree, why is Windows taking that much time to apply some updates? And you can't do anything while the updates are in progress.

[zach43]

A friend of mine joked that a recent Windows update “downloaded the entire internet and then proceeded to install it”. The next day, I watched with horror as my computer restarted with the same Windows update...it took a similar amount of time (45 minutes to download, 30 minutes to install)

I would really like to know what it was downloading, and why it took so long. My entire windows partition is only 100GB, it would have been faster for me to back up my data, download a new ISO and install Windows from scratch than to just update it.

[Feniks]

In fairness Steam forces updates too. In the old days you could play games without updating to the latest version. Now game updates are mandatory.

So MS followed Valve on this.