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Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission

posted by mrpg on Saturday June 23 2018, @05:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the systemd dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

If you've been trying to keep Microsoft's forced updates and upgrades off your machine, your job just got harder. With KB 4056254, we now have a new Win10 Update Facilitation Service joining its comrade-in-arms Update Assistant V2 to ensure no patch gets blocked.

You can look at the new KB 4056254 Win10 Update Facilitation Service and the re-emergence of Win10 Update Assistant V2 from two different perspectives. On the one hand, you have those poor hapless Win10 users who accidentally munged Windows Update. On the other hand, you have folks with bazookas and flamethrowers who want to keep some semblance of control over updating their machines.

Both groups now face two different Microsoft initiatives to reset Windows Update.

[...] Seems, from April to June 2018, some savvy Win 10 users have found new ways to disable or block Windows Update. So, M$ has to come out with KB4056254 to "neutralize" their efforts. It's like a cat-and-mouse game.

Which seems to me like the core of the matter. It's not nice to mess with Mother Microsoft's patching schemes, so you're going to get a few new services running in the background to whop your system upside the head if you dare to block patches.

Sources:
Win10 Update Facilitation Service joins Update Assistant V2 to make sure you get patched | Computerworld
Watch out: Win10 Update Facilitation as a Service and a new push for the Update Assistant | AskWoody

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 23 2018, @06:53PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 23 2018, @06:53PM (#697309)

    Yeah, MS used to be the soulless agnostic corporation that let you do whatever you wanted with your machine. It was just a platform. Now its another walled garden with minicams in all the trees.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @08:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @08:16PM (#697682)

    "Yeah, MS used to be the soulless agnostic corporation that let you do whatever you wanted with your machine. It was just a platform. Now its another walled garden with minicams in all the trees."

    One tree that harbors the minicam, & the other tree for the hangman's noose.