Windows Isn’t a Service. It’s an Operating System.

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“Windows as a Service” is failing. It’s obvious: Windows is not a service, and never was. It’s a desktop operating system, and it doesn’t need updates every six months. Even iOS and Android only get significant updates once per year.

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“Updating All These PCs Sure Is Hard!”

Microsoft just put out a blog post about Windows 10’s quality, and it’s very defensive. Microsoft doesn’t explain what happened with the October 2018 Update at all, nor does it promise to change the development process in the future. The only real commitment is to more transparency and improved communication going forward.

To put all the recent bugs into perspective, Microsoft asks that we consider “the sheer scale of the Windows ecosystem”:

With Windows 10 alone we work to deliver quality to over 700 million monthly active Windows 10 devices, over 35 million application titles with greater than 175 million application versions, and 16 million unique hardware/driver combinations.

That’s right—Windows is a very complex beast that has to support a large number of hardware devices and software applications. That’s a reason Microsoft should slow down and stop updating Windows so frequently, not an excuse for constant bugs.

Windows 7 supported a lot of hardware devices and software applications, too. But Windows 7 wasn’t constantly breaking things. Microsoft provided a stable base of software for hardware manufacturers and software developers to work on.

We still agree security updates are important, of course. But Microsoft managed to deliver security updates to Windows 7 and older versions of Windows before “Windows as a Service,” and those security updates rarely caused problems.

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Windows Doesn’t Need Big Updates Every Six Months

Please Microsoft, slow down. How about releasing a new version of Windows once per year instead?

That’s what Apple does, and Apple doesn’t need “macOS as a Service” to do it. Just create a new version of Windows every year, give it a new name, and spend a lot of time polishing it and fixing bugs. Wait until it’s stable to release it, even if you have to delay it.

Offer every version of Windows as an optional free upgrade. Don’t force people to upgrade immediately. Don’t trick people into installing the new operating system just because they clicked “Check for Updates.” If it’s good, people will install it.

If someone’s hardware or software doesn’t work correctly with the new release, let them stick with their old operating system.

It wouldn’t even be much more work for Microsoft to keep multiple versions of Windows updated with security patches. For Enterprise users, every September feature update is patched for 30 months. Just make these September feature updates the normal version of Windows and let all Windows users get them—done.

 

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As an average PC user, I don't need my system gets updated every six months and change my system. MS secretly and forcefully installed many 'unwanted apps' like candy crush, deploys more add irrespective of my "users choice". Windows 10 has more activation issue than the previous operative systems.