> Why download updates at all without the user knowing? Is prompting before downloading such an awful user experience in comparison? Or, you know, prompt once per day and add a 'remind me in x days/minutes' option?
Yeah, it's a pain in the neck. If I've got 20 bits of software on my PC and they all update once a month, then most days I'm going to get a random popup asking to update. Just get on and do it please.
That's fair. From the post my impression was that auto-update is forced, so users don't get a say in whether it can download in the background, if that's not the case then disregard that part of my comment.
Yeah, it's a pain in the neck. If I've got 20 bits of software on my PC and they all update once a month, then most days I'm going to get a random popup asking to update. Just get on and do it please.