While a good thing for the majority of users, helping keep their computers up to date and secure, this problem highlights the dangers of a mandatory update policy.
See, it seems that Corel, maker of the InterVideo's WinDVD software, is pushing a mandatory update for the program.
As the group's president, Chris Minnich, recalled, "States were saying, we're being compared against each other and if we have lower expectations in our states, that doesn't help us.' Chiefs said, 'No state should have lower expectations than another.'" And like Kentucky, several states were facing a mandatory update to their learning standards.
We've been working non-stop to minimize your device's functionality while increasing the amount of memory required to handle mandatory updates.
Windows 10's mandatory updates, which the user cannot decline to install as they could do on previous versions of Windows, is exacerbating the problem.
H-1B Employees (Mandatory): updates information for H-1B Employees.
J-1 Scholars (Mandatory): updates and information specific to J-1 scholars.
Mandatory Updates - Windows 10 may be more secure and up-to-date because of this, but Microsoft's decision to force updates upon users also has significant downsides.
The concept of mandatory updates is understandably a bit troubling for people that don't want to cede that additional level of control over their machines.
Brutal Enforcement Policies - Of course mandatory updates have led to many users devising elabourate ways to sidestep Windows 10 patches, but there's little point in this.
And it's not just an annoyance, no sir. If you don't install the mandatory update, then WinDVD won't play back any DVDs at all.
