It's amazing that Microsoft is spending time on a creepy tool to record all your activity when it still can't figure out how to prevent Windows from waking your laptop while in your backpack (or not rebooting overnight without permission because of some stupid update).
Their purpose and priorities are not yours. You are just a tenant. Think of them as being a landlord and it all makes perfect sense. Now you may appreciate why Mao wanted to execute all landlords, too ;).
My employer (I assume they did it, not Microsoft) has some setting that won’t let me put the laptop to sleep at all, which kind of defeats the whole battery life thing.
So does mine. It’s an option. Supposedly sleep mode is less secure so they tell us to lock or shutdown. Mine locks immediately when I close the screen.
I don't know how anyone can defend Microsoft. You can clearly see where their priorities are for one, and for two, I've had to help people with Microsoft miseries since 1986, nothing has changed. This is standard operating procedure for Microsoft. Their priorities have always been in the wrong place
"Active hours" is not a solve. It in no way stops unwanted automatic reboots. It just shunts them to when you're not paying attention/asleep, which is the actual problem that was called out. Sure hope you weren't leaving stuff open to come back to later!
Forced reboots are fine, given the times I've seen it, it's been for security updates. And it's pretty hard to argue against forced reboots for security.
Also, what are u working with? Browsers restore your session, modern programs like word/etc has autosave, and honestly it rarely does it for me.
No, I will very much argue against forced reboots for security. My workspace is mine and its uptime should not be dictated to me by anyone. Browsers may restore a session, but will not restore where you were on a page or dynamic content. MANY applications do not autosave or restore.
mhm, sure bud, because everyone reboots for security at a proper date.
laughable to argue against security updates because your browser won't load the exact state of the wikipedia page or game you had open. It's not that serious.
I never claimed people reboot for security regularly. That is not remotely the issue. I do not think security updates override my need for my work to remain undisturbed. I never mentioned games, though honestly if that's what I'm doing then that counts too. My security risk is mine.
They CAN figure it out. Figuring it out costs money, and they don't care enough to spend that money because we're all buying their stupid junk anyway. What else are we gonna do? Buy a Mac for twice as much? Install LINUX???? Of course not that would require interacting withinux users. lol, lmao even
Sounds like the blame is on the manufacturer and or the lack of proper technical support. I'll just put it here, Power Options ...> Choose what closing the lid does.
I wouldn't be quick to blame the hardware manufacturer. But if you decided to give up on the matter, there's no point in even trying to solve the problem.
