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We have gotten used to the ability to pick and choose pieces of updates/upgrades to apply, but I doubt that iOS permits this and certainly my Andriod devices don’t. Software programs don’t. Windows may be unique in this. Is MS wrong to take the same path?

I can control all updates and upgrades to my phone, on a app by app basis.
If I don’t want to update an app, I don’t have to.
(In the future, I’ll be able to update without giving an app all the permissions it requests.)

I understand the need to update by default for all the “less technical” (or whatever) users out there.
There still needs to be a path for more deliberate users.

The problem I have is with Microsoft’s selective designation of “metered” connections.
When traveling, I have various ways of connecting, some of which are expensive and others free.
Unfortunately, MS does not always have a way of specifying that these connections are metered.
And if they won’t let you specify it as metered, you are stuck.

For example, I use a service called Speedify, which is great if you are in a rural area, and have more than one sketchy connection (e.g. cell, wifi).
It lets you combine them into one good connection.
But, Speedigy is set up as a “virtual ethernet” and MS won’t let you set this as “metered”, even though I have to pay for Speedify AND probably at least one of the connections.

Now, if I were able to control updates, I could just wait until the next time I am on free wifi.
Apparently, my only choice with Win10 will be to pay a $99 ransom to MS.
Instead, I will stay on Win 8 (which I dislike) because of this one issue.