Microsoft's Forced Updates

Microsoft's forced updates are the most disruptive of any major OS vendor, hijacking your machine mid-work with mandatory restarts that install unwanted features like Candy Crush and nag you to switch to Edge. Affecting over 1.4 billion Windows users globally, this practice forces restarts every 30 days on average, costing 20 minutes per disruption. It outperforms #6 Adobe's subscription trap in sheer frequency of interruption, as users face more frequent and disruptive updates.