> Notably, the rollout will be handled by an “intelligent” update system that leverages machine learning to determine when a device is ready to receive the update.
> Curiously, there seems to be a lack of transparency around how Microsoft’s machine learning system decides when a device is ready to receive the automatic update.
The open secret is that the LLM has been prompted to make the call and no human in Microsoft is able to interrogate why the agentic AI is pushing updates to some machines and not to others.
After all the stupid drama in the last few years, we loaded Linux Mint Mate on all my parents computers. My mom can't really tell the difference and my dad likes it.
If Microsoft is losing 65 year olds, they've got a problem.
Microsoft lost my 80yr old aunt and my two under teenager kids. My last hold-out at home is my son's laptop, which he needed Windows for a proctered exam (now completed). He's excited to soon be on the same OS as his other family members.
Microsoft is driving more and more people away to Linux or macOS (as evidenced by other comments here). I thought they had recently announced that they would be trying to rebuild trust in their users, but evidently the Windows Update team didn't get the memo.
Other than taking longer to install, this doesn't sound materially worse than forcing any other Windows update on the same set of users (those whose update settings aren't controlled by Group Policy, presumably).
In particular, this change doesn't apply to Windows 10.
Do nontechnical users intentionally run older, unsupported builds of Windows 11 in the first place, and if so, why?
> Notably, the rollout will be handled by an “intelligent” update system that leverages machine learning to determine when a device is ready to receive the update.
Has everyone at M$ lost the plot? We need AI to know whether a version number is smaller than another version number now? What the fuck does this even mean?
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> Notably, the rollout will be handled by an “intelligent” update system that leverages machine learning to determine when a device is ready to receive the update.
> Curiously, there seems to be a lack of transparency around how Microsoft’s machine learning system decides when a device is ready to receive the automatic update.
The open secret is that the LLM has been prompted to make the call and no human in Microsoft is able to interrogate why the agentic AI is pushing updates to some machines and not to others.
If Microsoft is losing 65 year olds, they've got a problem.
Many subreddits ban sites for having clickbaity nonsense and it's high time HN did the same.
In particular, this change doesn't apply to Windows 10.
Do nontechnical users intentionally run older, unsupported builds of Windows 11 in the first place, and if so, why?
What? How could that possibly be beneficial for anyone?
> Notably, the rollout will be handled by an “intelligent” update system that leverages machine learning to determine when a device is ready to receive the update.
Has everyone at M$ lost the plot? We need AI to know whether a version number is smaller than another version number now? What the fuck does this even mean?
2. Keep your fucking OS up to date. At this point, there is no excuse for exposing unmaintained, unupdated code to the Internet.