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To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (89896)	7/26/2015 1:20:25 PM
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According to Windows Secrets / Susan Bradley ( June 18 Newsletter), Win 10 Home users will still be able to control when to reboot after an automatic update. The update installation is the only thing automatic. Still, considering Microsoft's track record, it'll be worth paying a bit more for Win 10 Pro (or installing Win 7/8/8.1 Pro now & upgrading to Win 10 Pro when its released) to avoid automatically installing something known to be faulty. The internet will certainly let you know about faulty Microsoft updates when they occur. Since those updates will happen later in Win 10 Pro than Win 10 Home conceivably Microsoft will have repaired them by the time they're rolled out to Win 10 Pro users. Indeed, some pundits suggest that Microsoft now views Home users as nothing more than Beta testers for their updates/future releases to Corporate customers. What the nvidia fiasco appears to reveal is (1) the non-Microsoft or 3rd party updates that used to be optional are now mandatory and automatically installed and (2) Microsoft clearly is hiding 'features' it knows will not be well accepted. The nvidia fiasco begs the question 'What else isn't Microsoft letting their customers know about?'. Microsoft tends to be full of surprises. For my purposes, Win 7 is sufficient for now. Let the early adopters of Win 10 take the arrows. When its clear what Microsoft is really doing, then I'll look into moving to Win 10 and, like Josh, only the Pro version. I got 'lucky' when Dell forced Win 7 Pro on me if I wanted an SSD pre-installed on my 2013 8700 desktop. That'll get me a free upgrade to Win 10 Pro when I know the water's safe.

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