Dear God, bad headline
Rolling out isn’t a forced update. Microsoft uses machine learning to determine when a computer should receive a big feature update. These are gradual, similar to how how Steam staggers your game updates by default. Machines qualified by the model to have a “good” upgrade experience get updated first. This is to 1. not strain global delivery and local networks too much 2. be able to stop the rollout if anything goes wrong.
All the message they analyzed from MS meant was that as the EOL of previous Win11 version nears, they’re starting to rollout the update to all PCs. You can still disable automatic updates.
This community has a heavy bias against Windows. Expect more of those kinds of headlines to show up in here.
That’s very understandable. I also hate Windows, but not to the point of fake headlines.
not strain global networks to much
I have personally witnessed what mass Windows updates can do to a network on a smaller scale on a college campus when I used to work IT for one
For the longest time (They eventually got around to fixing this, I was just hell desk at the time so not my problem) whenever patch Tuesday would roll around everything network wise came to a screeching halt for a solid hour while all the windows machines would update
But Linux good, Windows bad? This entirely reasonable approach doesn’t sound right.
Microsoft can force update Deez nuts
And yet when I want to install 23H2 I can’t get windows update to offer it. Thanks Microsoft.
That’s what the article actually means beneath the clickbait: They’re going to start offer 23H2 to all PCs, not just these that their ML model thinks have had a “good” update experience. See my comment above.
To get the latest versions, just turn on “Get the latest updates as soon as they’re available,” and select Check for updates, which is what the article quoted.
They’re rolling it out gradually, as is customary for routine updates.
I’m not sure why this is worthy of a headline, frankly. This is how Microsoft typically does these things. I guess it’s the “…with AI involved somehow!” Bit in the title that makes it interesting? I expect that’s going to get old fairly quickly.
BloatNosey latest version might help ( I hope).
Someone down voted you 🤦♂️
Just another reason to ditch Microsoft wherever possible.