The more-all majority may differ on this (do they not know that the 'man' behind the curtain is really the men behind Windows? - I do not know). But automatic updates were always a bit of a strange phenomenon to me. I've always been into pushing things; i.e.into doing things 'my way', like creating 3d render farms on no budget and multi-tasking half a dozen things at once and so on. At that level of novel use I find it best not to focus on ultimate convenience; and best not to force programmers to accommodate and predict my moves - weird crashes or being prevented from turning a unit off suddenly when rushing to the airport have been best avoided by having user control - and responsibility. Its sort of an ancient concept, from when we were people first and machine-users second. Used to be called something, I forget. Oh yes, it used to be called independence.
Wow, I hope after I sleep I'm not still this sarcastic. (If the auto-updates over Wi-Fi were to occur though, Cliff could be creative and engineer some threatening screen upon final countdown, akin to the melt faces screen, but on a system-threatening level, to ensure battery backup unit is on, and no homeless man is outside my apartment where the building manager has allowed easy access to the breaker box - I'm not kidding - one actually switched it off on me a few months back (as witnessed by the neighbors) (- the other anomaly is that the last battery backup unit failed on me unpredictably - if you're into protecting your gear from sudden power loss, make sure you get a battery backup unit with some sort of indicator of health.)
