From c|net:
The latest Insider Build of Windows 10, the option that allows Windows 10 licence holders to sign up for early builds, is addressing a long-standing problem with the operating system. Namely, it will allow you to put off software updates, effectively putting an end to the controversial decision to force automatic updates on Windows 10 users.
Under the new build, users will be able to pause all updates for up to 35 days, effectively allowing you to schedule when you want your software to update. Users will also now be able to choose whether or not to include driver updates in these Windows 10 updates. Both of these new features will be included in the Education, Enterprise and Professional editions of Windows 10.
So, if you paid for Windows 10, you can have control of your PC back, maybe, when this new build goes live later this year. If you were "upgraded" to Windows 10 against your wishes, though, then... not so much.
"Fuck you, pay me." Nice business model, Microsoft. It sounds familiar, somehow.
UPDATE:
It looks like I'm not the only person to spot this omission from Microsoft's new "feature." Gordon Kelly at Forbes has this take:Windows 10 Build 15002’s biggest and most eagerly awaited addition: the ability to delay the installation of updates for up to 35 days. This timescale isn’t as long as I and many others would want, but it’s an important first step and restores an element of something long lost in Windows 10: control.
But it comes with a crazy omission.
Microsoft is not giving this feature to Windows 10 Home users. That’s right, by far the largest group of Windows 10 users will not be getting by far the most requested feature. Instead only Professional, Education, and Enterprise versions will qualify.
My initial thought was this makes no sense, but when you think hard there actually is logic here and that logic is even more infuriating. Microsoft is deliberately treating everyday users as guinea pigs so Enterprise and the more expensive Professional and Education customers can wait and learn from any potential update misfortunes they endure.
Microsoft sends down bad drivers? Everyday users will let us know when their PCs crash. Broken bug fix? Everyday users will let us know when a key program in their daily lives won’t start.
Of course we should have seen this coming. After all this attitude has actually been there even before the release of Windows 10. Back in January 2015 Microsoft director of program management Jim Alkove wrote about the operating system in a little read blog post explaining:
“By the time Current branch for Business machines are updated, the changes will have been validated by millions of Insiders, consumers and customers’ internal test processes for several months, allowing updates to be deployed with this increased assurance of validation.”
Yes, this once again goes to show there’s no such thing as a free lunch. If consumers want a free Windows upgrade, they need to accept their role as bug testers for paying businesses. And if you think sticking to Windows 7 or Windows 8 will help you retain control, it won’t.
"Fuck you, pay me." That's Microsoft's message for almost everyone currently using Windows 10, including a lot of people who didn't want to upgrade, and who said no to the upgrade over and over again, only to have Microsoft first ignore them completely, and ultimately use dirty tricks to migrate them to the new OS anyway. GWX really was an offer you couldn't refuse. At least they didn't break anyone's kneecaps.