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		sidewndr46 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping u... This doesn't really jive with reality as Windows is plenty buggy in the presence or absence of the latest updates. Microsoft has slowly eliminated end user controls over updates because it would interfere with their ability to monetize their customer base. You can't really push a telemetry update, if updates aren't being applied.

rincebrain 12 months ago [–]

I didn't say it accomplished it, I said I thought it was their rationale.

Of course, they also fired a lot of their testers, and seem to have thought that testing was something end users do in prod, so...

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