Dear Microsoft updates and application installers.
I hardly believe my eyes each time I see the famous "restart required" prompt. Especially the annoying ones after automatic updates that can be postponed by max of 4 hours. They pop-up periodically on our lab laptop and try to provoke most awkward situations (laptop restarting in the middle of the presentation). Why would I want to restart my computer? Why would I want to break my work?
The idea of restarting a computer is outdated now. Consider Linux operating system. You can install, update or remove programs without rebooting. You can even update your kernel [http://www.ksplice.com/] without rebooting!
As the proof of my statement about obsolete reboots, consider my desktop computer at school.
It is running over half a year now, it survived moving inside the office, survived changing of external hardware (monitors, keyboard, mouse), it even survived update from gnome2 to gnome3 (although that time I lost my session -- it turned out that running gnome2 months after its removal was not the best idea).
Anyway, to the point -- Today I am celebrating whole 200days of uptime :-)
[ppershing@nslpc19: /usr/research/home/peter ]>uptime
09:27:12 up 200 days, 19:38, 27 users, load average: 8.18, 8.36, 8.21
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