{"id":297764,"date":"2019-02-28T14:58:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T12:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=297764"},"modified":"2019-02-28T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T13:00:10","slug":"updating-windows-10-home-is-confusing-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/297764-updating-windows-10-home-is-confusing-research.html","title":{"rendered":"Updating Windows 10 Home is confusing &#8211; Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the various improvements made to the update process in Windows 10, many Home users still find it too complex, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndss-symposium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/usec2019_02-5_Morris_paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>researchers by University College London<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The research surveyed 93 Windows 10 Home Edition users and found that many are still plagued by unexpected restarts and confusing update setting configurations.<\/p>\n<p>53% of respondents stated that updating Windows was easier in Windows 10, but 97% of users said that the default 08:00-17:00 Active Hours for Windows update scheduling weren&#8217;t correct in their case.<\/p>\n<p>This time bracket is more applicable to office users, but respondents in the survey said that they usually used their PCs in the evening, and 28% of users did not even know that Active Hours existed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the research, a large proportion of Windows 10 Home users still do not understand the Windows update process, suggesting Microsoft still has progress to make in improving its user experience.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/297574-whatsapp-to-get-new-advanced-search-feature.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">WhatsApp to get new Advanced Search feature<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the various improvements made to the update process in Windows 10, many users still find it too complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":193098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[57726,26970,953],"class_list":["post-297764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-home-edition","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297808,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297764\/revisions\/297808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}