• pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    As any current or former Windows admin will know - they can barely handle Windows OS updates without breaking something major every other month.

    I mean on the one hand it would be good to do away with all the duplicated efforts of in-app automatic updaters and app ‘agents’ that tie up background resources. But colour me jaded, i think this will just be a walled garden that app developers have to pay to opt into, and will mean users lose control over which apps they trust to update without thinking, and which they selectively update after a ‘hmm i better just check they didnt cause any major bugs’ search. A new revenue stream for MS is the primary goal.