Controversy has already surrounded Microsoft’s policy of denying Windows 10 users opportunities to pick and choose updates to the operating system – and now, it seems, the corporation has pledged to only provide thorough details of an update’s purpose if it is considered significant.
Microsoft made clear this policy to IT news website The Register, following the site’s concern that Microsoft had recently delivered a patch update to Windows 10 without describing its modifications as anything other than “improvements to enhance the functionality of Windows 10.”
Today, The Register revealed that, through a spokesperson, Microsoft has since stated: “As we have done in the past, we post KB articles relevant to most updates which we’ll deliver with Windows as a service. Depending on the significance of the update and if it is bringing new functionality to Windows customers, we may choose to do additional promotion of new features as we deploy them.”
Many Windows 10 users, especially those who have already taken issue with a number of dubious privacy practices in the OS, are unlikely to consider Microsoft’s stance acceptable. The Register has opined that it “flies in the face of years of sensible security advice to trust nothing.”