Microsoft claimed ages ago when they made updates effectively mandatory (you can turn them off entirely or delay them by 27 day chunks forever on non-enterprise installs) that they would dynamically detect the times your computer wasn’t actively being used and try to target that, but it never really made a difference besides “aim for when the computer is likely powered off anyway”.
And that still doesn’t hit the basic “is the user presenting in PowerPoint, running a full screen video/program?” sort of common freaking sense stuff you’re talking about.
In some nicer news, Microsoft finally started trying to release some updates as “live updates” that don’t require a reboot late last year. So maybe in a decade they’ll get close to the Linux update experience.
Oh 100%.
Microsoft claimed ages ago when they made updates effectively mandatory (you can turn them off entirely or delay them by 27 day chunks forever on non-enterprise installs) that they would dynamically detect the times your computer wasn’t actively being used and try to target that, but it never really made a difference besides “aim for when the computer is likely powered off anyway”.
And that still doesn’t hit the basic “is the user presenting in PowerPoint, running a full screen video/program?” sort of common freaking sense stuff you’re talking about.
In some nicer news, Microsoft finally started trying to release some updates as “live updates” that don’t require a reboot late last year. So maybe in a decade they’ll get close to the Linux update experience.