Thoughts on Windows 8 - Part IV - Updates

Not much to say. first mandatory update was pushed. It was advertised days ahead of schedule. There was no obvious way to instantly apply the update. Even though I cycled my laptop several times during the interim period, the update was not applied until the scheduled date and time. I did not try very hard to avoid the update, but there is no graceful solution offered to defer updates at this point in the beta. I doubt this will be indicative of the process that will be implemented in production. I expect a model like the mandatory IE upgrades will be followed, where a setting can override the updates.