It's not just Microsoft, but this "update culture" is pervasive in software today. New features make for exciting marketing but in the end what most users probably want more is stability. All the stories of forced updates and accompanying reboots (with not even a chance to save work?) remind me of the old criticisms of Windows being so unstable it needs to be rebooted frequently, and how uptime was a highly-valued result of good system design.
I personally think near-daily updating to fix bugs that should've been discovered and fixed before actually shipping product is absurd. It's been argued that this is because systems are more complex now, but maybe we don't actually need all that complexity...
I personally think near-daily updating to fix bugs that should've been discovered and fixed before actually shipping product is absurd. It's been argued that this is because systems are more complex now, but maybe we don't actually need all that complexity...