This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.

  • unalivejoy
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    41 year ago

    What’s next? Hopefully, Microsoft won’t start injecting a poll at shutdown demanding to know why I’m turning my PC off for the day.

    They already do this in Windows Server. Every unscheduled shutdown and restart requires a reason so it can be properly audited.

    • Billiam
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      151 year ago

      Which is logical for an enterprise-level application.

      For a consumer-level app, this is balls.

      • unalivejoy
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        01 year ago

        Unless of course you don’t actually own your PC. That’s what Microsoft wants. Soon, they might make it so you can’t install other OSes.

        • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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          11 year ago

          I’m sure that’ll be fun for the IT guys.

          “Why is our website down?!? What do I pay you people for?!”

          “Sir, the subscription for our server OS wasn’t paid because the company card was declined.”

    • @BURN
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      11 year ago

      As the other commenter said, this is a good precaution to have in a server OS. My FreeNAS/TrueNAS setup also require that.

      For consumer OS, no it’s less than ideal, but for enterprise users it’s a very good feature to have