To be fair, it would also be highly distruptive if you let the computer run overnight to finish some long running job and Windows decides it's rebootin' time. The point is: the OS shouldn't decide for you to reboot.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Windows doesn't reboot when things are running.

Microsoft wouldn't have to force reboots if there weren't people like lunarul who keep their computer running perpetually.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Windows doesn’t reboot when things are running.

Plenty of reports to the contrary

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/47biyb/windows_10_restarted_while_i_was_in_the_middle_of/

[–] Wirrvogel@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

From your link:

but the option to choose a new time was greyed out

Which only ever happened for me if I had already pushed back an update multiple times. Which then means they had all the time in the world to make sure they do the update before they start such a critical, multiple days long process. These are people without forced update they would never make updates and they are the reason forced updates have to happen now.