The study involved 93 Windows 10 users and proved the following points:

Windows 10 Home’s Windows Update patching experience is frustrating for most of the users Some of the users are even not familiar with using the Windows Update service/tools Windows fails to assist the users during the update process Windows built-in tools are inadequate to help users in making update decisions The unexpected reboots during the update process disrupt the workflow Microsoft should offer an alternate for the needed restarts

Some of you might be curious to know how the update process takes place, a flowchart of the Windows 10 Home update process has been published by the authors.   It is worth mentioning that some of the issues that have been highlighted in the study have already been addressed in the recent updates. Microsoft has put an icon in the taskbar indicating the users that they need an update. The feature will be available in April 2019 Update (19H1).

How did Windows 10 Home users respond to the research?

Annoyed by the huge volume of updates

It seems like users are pretty much annoyed with the huge volume of updates that take a lot of time and also chews up bandwidth as well. — RELATED: Survey confirms Windows updates trigger bugs for 50% of users

Users prefer to disable updates

While some of the frustrated users even took an extreme step by disabling the Windows Update service permanently. As a matter of fact, they preferred to take the security risks that are associated with disabling the updates. SPONSORED

Lack of testing by Microsoft

While another user stated that Microsoft used to have a quality test team for Windows 7. While now it the number of bugs justify the fact that the tech giant is no longer focusing on quality assurance. It is just testing the products by releasing them to home users.

The tradition of bugs in the first release

You might run into issues as Insiders are not property testing the builds and most of the times the builds rolled out with potential issues. Notably, Microsoft has a history of having bugs in its first release. — RELATED: Windows 10 October Update causes all these bugs

Downloading unnecessary apps

Surprisingly some of the users also have to delete all the newly installed apps that are of no use for a home user. They should have a feature to install only important security updates.

Users lack the required knowledge

While few of the Windows users also blame the users to be lazy enough and lacking computer knowledge. The user states that often people don’t even try to understand the basics and that is the only reason they suffer during installation. One of the most important thing that should be considered by Microsoft is that around 28% of the users don’t even know about the Active Hours feature. This feature allows the users to delay Windows update on their systems by setting a time beyond their working hours. Microsoft seriously needs to think about creating awareness among Windows 10 Home users regarding its Windows Update service and tools. 

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