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dr_andus:
@dr_andus the type of anguish you describe is why I always disable updates.
-MilesAhead (October 12, 2015, 05:48 PM)
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Apparently disabling the updates may not even do the trick anymore, Win10 installation will still download:
Windows users report Windows 10 upgrades are enforced on their systems - gHacks Tech News
MilesAhead:
@dr_andus the type of anguish you describe is why I always disable updates.
-MilesAhead (October 12, 2015, 05:48 PM)
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Apparently disabling the updates may not even do the trick anymore, Win10 installation will still download:
Windows users report Windows 10 upgrades are enforced on their systems - gHacks Tech News
-dr_andus (October 15, 2015, 06:37 PM)
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Just imagine how much fun it will be when everything runs on The Cloud(tm).
Shades:
MS' acknowledgement of this back-firing behavior...
dr_andus:
MS' acknowledgement of this back-firing behavior...
-Shades (October 16, 2015, 08:02 AM)
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Thanks. I wonder how much of this 'mistake' is due to someone lower down the chain of command being creative under the tremendous pressure of entire MS management coming down on them like a ton of bricks to install Win10 on 1 billion devices in 2 years...
if achievement of that goal is not going as well as they expected, I wouldn't be surprised if the 1-year free upgrade window might be extended or even permanently removed.
IainB:
MS' acknowledgement of this back-firing behavior...
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-Shades (October 16, 2015, 08:02 AM)
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Thanks. I wonder how much of this 'mistake' is due to someone lower down the chain of command being creative under the tremendous pressure of entire MS management coming down on them like a ton of bricks to install Win10 on 1 billion devices in 2 years...
if achievement of that goal is not going as well as they expected, I wouldn't be surprised if the 1-year free upgrade window might be extended or even permanently removed.
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-dr_andus (October 16, 2015, 09:37 AM)
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You may well have hit the nail on the head there. Irrational (you used the euphemism "creative") behaviours induced by fear and panic - that's what Deming demonstrated was a typical outcome when you attempt to impose a numerical "target" (in this case it would seem to be an imagined/irrational "sales target", or something) - a number which is absurd as it has no basis in statistical veracity - on a business process. A common BS euphemism for this is "a stretch quota".
As I wrote in the discussion thread Re: Ethics in Technology
The VW fraud would probably never have eventuated if the problem - the setting of artificial "targets" for diesel engine testing - had not been created in error in the first place by a bloated bureaucracy with apparently little or no understanding of processes in statistical control (Shewhart, Deming).
The fact that the targets were also set at evidently infeasible levels (QED) would have merely served to compound the problem.
This looks very much like a textbook example of the sort of thing that W.E.Deming was on about when he published his 14-point philosophy, where point 11 was:
11. [Eliminate targets with no basis in statistical veracity]
a) Eliminate work standards (quotas) on the factory floor.
Substitute leadership.
b) Eliminate management by objective. Eliminate management by
numbers, numerical goals. Substitute leadership.
(from Chapter 2 of "Out of the Crisis", by W. Edwards Deming).
However, from experience, I predict that, in common with a great many people, approx. 80% (Pareto Principle) of the people who might read this comment will fail to accept or understand the truth of point 11, primarily because it runs contrary to conventional wisdom, and they will be unlikely to have seen the proof of it in Deming's "Red Beads" teaching experiment. ...
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-IainB (October 10, 2015, 01:33 AM)
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Unfortunately, the same holds true of management - approx. 80% (Pareto Principle) of them who might read this comment will fail to accept or understand the truth of point 11 - even if you rubbed their noses in it. They would be unable to "get" point 11, if their belief was that "you gotta have targets" (MBO). People will generally tend to prefer to hold onto their beliefs, rather than re-examine them rationally in light of new/conflicting information. This is the point when they cease to be able to learn and it is also an explanation as to why children can be taught to believe any old rubbish you care to toss at them as "fact" - their minds are a blank slate with no preconceptions to rub out, unlike an adult's mind.
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