My late father, who was a software developer by trade before his retirement, had a desktop machine set up running Windows 7 (probably?) that he used for checking email, and buying stuff online.
A few years later, when he had been diagnosed with cancer and was on chemo, it updated itself to Windows 10 without his explicit consent. It completely fucked up the install, and was unusable for him from then on. He was too tired to go through the process of getting it sorted out, and was thus unable to book a vacation that he had intended to take to recover from that round of chemo.
Microsoft's unfriendly us-first, customers-second process robbed him of his last holiday and I will not easily forgive them for it.
If a seasoned developer can be robbed of quality of life by this flavour of bullshit, what chance do the non-technical types stand?
A few years later, when he had been diagnosed with cancer and was on chemo, it updated itself to Windows 10 without his explicit consent. It completely fucked up the install, and was unusable for him from then on. He was too tired to go through the process of getting it sorted out, and was thus unable to book a vacation that he had intended to take to recover from that round of chemo.
Microsoft's unfriendly us-first, customers-second process robbed him of his last holiday and I will not easily forgive them for it.
If a seasoned developer can be robbed of quality of life by this flavour of bullshit, what chance do the non-technical types stand?