What is Windows supposed to do?

Correctly report that there are pending updates when there are?

Download them in one batch, requiring only one restart?

Download and install them at a reasonable speed on my 1Mbps connection and SSD?

And I simply do not buy that anyone outside of HDD and unstable internet users had to wait more than 1h at absolute worst to install a half a year load of updates.

Apparently from the comments here this doesn’t affect everyone. If you don’t believe that this can happen to anyone because it doesn’t happen to you, I’m not interested in convincing you.

This has nothing to do with the insider program though. They mentioned it because it makes the situation even worse just because of the large number of updates. I’ve had the same thing happen to me multiple times on my windows 10 copy that is not enrolled in the insider program.

I don’t know a single piece of electronic that doesn’t require updating after purchasing. Hours, though? Is this guy on a 10kbps connection or where is this fantasy coming from?

No, it’s slow regardless of your connection. That’s because you’re stuck in a loop of:

1. windows wrongly reporting no updates available so you have to keep clicking on “check for updates” for a few minutes until it shows available updates, and then it only shows a small subset of the actual available updates
2. the updates downloading and installing unreasonably slowly, sometimes freezing for several minutes with no indication of progress
3. windows requesting a reboot, refusing to find any more available updates without you doing it
4. slow reboot because it’s installing updates
5. go to step 1 for several more times

For reference, I’ve updated arch linux setups after many months of not using them and the process takes ~10 mins at worst, and that’s an OS that assumes you update it regularly. You can probably do an entire major release update on debian/ubuntu in the same time that windows takes to install ~6 months of regular updates. It’s inexcusable and it’s pretty clear that windows doesn’t give a shit for anyone that doesn’t use it daily, which is exactly the point the article is making.

If the password manager server is hacked and compromised, then syncing your passwords with the compromised server will lead to compromised passwords (duh)

What do you mean “duh”? The password managers claim that the exact opposite is true.

Most service providers therefore promote their products with the promise of “zero-knowledge encryption”. This means they assure users that their stored passwords are encrypted and even the providers themselves have “zero knowledge” of them and no access to what has been stored. “The promise is that even if someone is able to access the server, this does not pose a security risk to customers because the data is encrypted and therefore unreadable. We have now shown that this is not the case”, explains Matilda Backendal.

This would be true for a properly implemented end-to-end encryption scheme.