Microsoft Issues Windows 10 Upgrade Warning

I&#x27;m always impressed by people&#x27;s creative ability to put a negative spin on almost anything. Particularly to generate hate-clicks.<p>In this case they&#x27;re implementing Seamless Updates, which should substantially reduce downtime and improve roll-backs during update installation (a major complaint) but instead of focusing on the benefit, they focus on the disk space loss.<p>The reason it takes up space on Windows, Android, and Chrome OS is that the reserved area holds a chunk of the operating system which is updated in the background before restart. When a restart occurs, the reserved and active slices are swapped (and reversion can be rapidly conducted for failures&#x2F;roll-backs).<p>This is a nice quality of life improvement for a common complaint.

I can&#x27;t answer this because the most likely location for the answer [1] is locked behind a beta program access or something, but where do they plan on taking the reserved storage from? I assume they&#x27;re not going to try to repartition the drive? It sounds like they&#x27;re just using filesystem features to carve it out of an existing partition, but I&#x27;d like to be sure. My laptop is currently dual-boot, but if Microsoft starts blindly mucking with partition tables it&#x27;s gonna go single-boot Linux right quick. (I <i>expect</i> it&#x27;s not that, but I&#x27;d like to be sure.)<p>As long as they&#x27;re staying out of the partition table, this sounds like a good idea to me, honestly.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insider.windows.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;ih&#x2F;?contentid=2762bf7a-bef0-4835-8e4c-04ae8e3ed299&amp;contenttype=quest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insider.windows.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;ih&#x2F;?contentid=2762bf7a-bef...</a>

Interesting... Microsoft is forcing everyone to update their machines for quite some time... I&#x27;ve noticed that MS is forcing updates on my machine about a year ago and out of frustration I asked about it on this forum four months ago (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18029216" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18029216</a>) Please try it. Go to Computer Management&#x2F;Services and Applications&#x2F;Services and then stop and disable Windows Updates. It&#x27;s a matter of days before it will be back and running again. My next machine is going to be Apple.

I don&#x27;t understand why the updates take up so much space -- 7GB according to the article.

It&#x27;s not a warning - this only affects new PCs shipped with the latest version, not upgraders.

One thing that interests me: How does a Windows 10 install + 7gb reserved space compare with a current Windows 7 install in terms of disk usage? I thought Windows 7 was &quot;fatter&quot; than 10?

I&#x27;m fine with this. Android basically works the same way and I don&#x27;t see anyone complaining about that.

Linux has the exact same feature, and has had it since approximately forever. By default, 5% of the disk space on any system partition is reserved for use by the superuser after the main 95% portion is filled up. And system updates run with superuser privileges, so... ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯

Introducing the Update Prevention Tool.. Continously writting into reserved storage to prevent updates.. in 3.. 2... 1

I am glad that Windows is an opt-out of updates. We all know the majority of people never update anything. Personally I opt out and manually update my systems but most people just need it to happen.