Coming soon: Progress bars that mysteriously slow down to take seemingly forever when they’re showing 85% done, but a button pops up offering “pay $5 to finish now.”

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Not overly expensive. But I have to wondering how bad the reporting will become, how many false alerts will be generated, how 3rd party vulnerability scanners will detect it as needing a reboot before it’s patched.

Based on Microsoft’s track record for service alerts over the last year, I can see a lot of headaches incoming.

The Ubuntu Pro model.

Is restarting really that big of a deal? Even with servers you just do it during a maintenance window. These days 90% of what I had open opos back up when I log back in.

@harrysintonen Reducing the reboots required for patching benefit not only the ecosystem, but Microsoft themselves, so directly that they should pay us to opt into reboot-free patching.