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by SriniR 5402 days ago
You see, enterprise PCs are centrally managed and admins don't want something breaking because of the smallest of updates. They want to test their updates for a long time before they are pushed down to users. Auto-updating is exactly the opposite of what the enterprise wants, IMO.
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Yes, which has led to countless other problems because users are running insecure browsers. Admins always want control, but it's not always better for anybody but the admins who justify their existence. I'm currently deploying a project in a business environment and we're requiring Chrome because of its auto-updating feature.