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I and a few others have had updates off for a long time and haven't ever seen a prompt or anything for that piece of shit.
Note that for Windows 10 they just admitted that they are spying and that it cannot be disabled; there's no reason that this would only be true for Windows 10. They just didn't admit it for other versions.
Having updates disabled is a bad idea. While Microsoft is notoriously bad at fixing security problems, they do fix some problems, and you are not getting those fixes installed. Using Microsoft software is a bad idea for various reasons including security, but not installing patches only makes it worse.
Does everything seriously work cloud-based?
That's what I heard, but that doesn't mean it's true. In any case, all the big companies seem to move as much as they can into the cloud. If getting access to private data isn't their main reason for that (I believe it is), then at the very least they see it as a welcome side effect.
Note that for Windows 10 they just admitted that they are spying and that it cannot be disabled; there's no reason that this would only be true for Windows 10. They just didn't admit it for other versions.
Having updates disabled is a bad idea. While Microsoft is notoriously bad at fixing security problems, they do fix some problems, and you are not getting those fixes installed. Using Microsoft software is a bad idea for various reasons including security, but not installing patches only makes it worse.
Does everything seriously work cloud-based?
That's what I heard, but that doesn't mean it's true. In any case, all the big companies seem to move as much as they can into the cloud. If getting access to private data isn't their main reason for that (I believe it is), then at the very least they see it as a welcome side effect.
