Microsoft's Windows 10 anniversary update breaks millions of webcams...

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Barozi said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Funny that you don't remember that MS cheated on this, hiding Win 10 upgrade amongst critical updates and making for the first time an install confirmation pop-up that started the installation also if the user just closed it, without explicitly choosing it with a proper confirm button.

https://blogs.which.co.uk/technology/laptops-2/has-windows-10-installed-itself-without-asking-you/

I don't see the connection to the Anniversary Update. There is no install pop-up for updates.

The connection is that MS has a long record of unnecessarily mixing unwanted things with important updates, not making them clear enough to users when asking them whether accepting or not the updates and not offering the option of separately denying unwanted and even potentially harmful operations mixed, heavens know why, with useful ones in the same update, not to mention that it's definitely possible that most that accepted the Anniversary Update probably wished it bettered things that they didn't like or that weren't working good enough yet when MS did anything it could to persuade them to upgrade to Win 10.