[mlok]

I was attending my client conference when the invited speaker had his windows machine update right in the middle of his powerpoint presentation ! The whole room had to wait about 15 minutes for windows to finish its "important update".

(Of course he probably should have done it before and certainly ignored previous warnings. But it doesn't matter : the whole room of executive was wasting 15 minutes watching the speaker being angry at his machine)

To my knowledge, Linux would not do such a thing.

[throwaway888abc]

Exact point, no ads, no stop-working anytime

Linux / OsX just rock solid

[psd1]

Yep, which is clearly preferable in and of itself. But.

Windows is the haven of the uninformed. ITT we have the adept comparing update strategies - some arbitrary granny can't work like that. So Windows has to be engineered to maintain itself, even over the wishes of the user. And we've seen what happens if you allow the plebs to skip updating - many of them never update at all.