Now I know that the nags came with the security patch of IE, which means that I can't even avoid it if I want to have security updates installed. Horrible. How is then that the nag doesn't happen for business users if it's a part of the security patch?
I submitted another related article (and posted a summary) with more emphasis on the specifics, including when this nag does and doesn't appear to be showing up:
While I'm here, I'll add my voice to the chorus of people who think they're crazy to include not just non-security but clearly not-even-important functionality in a bundled security update. That was a line they should never have crossed, and it's going to cost them much of whatever trust they had left after the earlier GWX unpleasantness and the questionable practices of Windows 10 itself.
Edit: In fact, this Business Insider article seems to be a thin wrapper for the more detailed Infoworld one I submitted before, which is here:
Domain attachment as the nag/don't nag flag in fantastically stupid. In my previous company we had very good reason to have more Windows computers not on domain (and I'm not going to elaborate them, please don't ask, but domain is just one specific usage pattern).
Domain attachment as the nag/don't nag flag in fantastically stupid.
Maybe. If your goal is to nag as many home users and small business customers as possible, while avoiding irritating your larger business customers as much as possible, it's probably a pretty good heuristic.
I submitted another related article (and posted a summary) with more emphasis on the specifics, including when this nag does and doesn't appear to be showing up:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11261438
While I'm here, I'll add my voice to the chorus of people who think they're crazy to include not just non-security but clearly not-even-important functionality in a bundled security update. That was a line they should never have crossed, and it's going to cost them much of whatever trust they had left after the earlier GWX unpleasantness and the questionable practices of Windows 10 itself.
Edit: In fact, this Business Insider article seems to be a thin wrapper for the more detailed Infoworld one I submitted before, which is here:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3042155/microsoft-windows/w...