Dear Bill Gates

Dear Bill Gates,

I've been following you on social networks, and have been caring your efforts, by way of the Bill & Melinda Gates Basis, to spend billions of {dollars} to make the world a a lot better place!

Let me delight provide a easy suggestion that would make an large distinction for many individuals. Are you listening?

Please allow telling your match at Microsoft to alter Home windows to COMPLETELY UPDATE WINDOWS WITH ONLY A SINGLE MOUSE CLICK by the pc proprietor!

No ready an indeterminate time and confirming that sure it's desired to restart now, only to attend one other indeterminate time for the replace to put in or fail.

No perennial entries of root login watchword throughout replace.

No incomplete updates when extra updates can be found.

No googling cryptic failure codes.

No guide invocation of Home windows Replace Restore, invoke

Restore habitually

when wanted.

No coming once once more to find an antivirus wanted to be manually disabled.

Add a failure timeout. No ready days to find the replace obtained caught and the machine wants a guide reboot.

No messages "Ready on updates. 21% Do not flip off your PC. This can take some time." As an alternative inform your consumer when they need to come once once more IN MINUTES, not as a proportion of an incomplete intermediate stage.

By all means preserve the present replace course of accessible for anybody who desires it.

Take into account wrapping an machine-controlled rehear loop and failure timeout crosswise the present course of, with an escape ([ESC]?) to abort and fall once once more to the guide course of.

Please have a look at this whole earlier than you launch it, monitor each outcome failure mode in your lab that didn't finish in an entire replace. Permit customers to anonymously fax an replace

failure log

to Microsoft to report unsuccessful replace outcome modes to allow them to be tracked, prioritized and stuck.

Allow us to put an

annual business

measure on this suggestion. Allow us to assume that there are 1B Home windows computer systems in use, and every laptop undergoes 4 hours of updating every quarter, and assume a mean worldwide wage of $10/hour for laptop customers then the mechanisation projected right here may save USD $160B/12 months.

Compared it has been estimated {that a} extra environment friendly usage of older staff in USA would improve the USA GDP by over $800B/12 months.

However then once more, perchance automating Home windows replace is a a lot simpler change?

Thanks a lot for listening, and for all that you've got carried out and proceed to do.