Boot to Windows, do not pass go
It’s been a few weeks since I booted to my XP partition at home. So when I boot this morning, every single application1 informs me that it has an update, forcing me to stop everything I’m doing to wait for the downloads and required reboots. It only took 20 minutes, but boy did it take the wind out of my morning productivity.2
Updates impose on your users. When will we get that? We push so many things on the people using our software, without really considering what they want. We argue for the user, with a facade of our own ego, not really knowing or caring what they want (but readily supporting our own viewpoints). Today software sucks.