From InfoWorld: The blogosphere has erupted over Microsoft's newly acknowledged plans to force updates onto Windows 10 Home customers. Many say the move's long overdue. Some rail against the specter of forcibly bricked machines. Both sides have legitimate points, but three key factors need to be taken into account. Here's the untold story.
Ed Bott at ZDNet started the circus rolling on July 15 by reviewing the new EULA terms for Windows 10. "For consumers and small business," Bott says, "Windows 10 delivers automatic updates, with no option to selectively delay or reject individual updates." He goes on to quote an excerpt from the applicable piece of the EULA.
On July 16, Tim Anderson at The Register read the EULA anew and came to the conclusion, "The downside is that feature upgrades can potentially break applications, or drivers for peripherals such as printers and scanners. Those who value stability above having the latest features may prefer to install security updates only."
That evening, Peter Bright at Ars Technica weighed in, "If a future update breaks something essential, the user is going to be out of luck."
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