Hardly ever had such problems on machines I was able to manage myself.
I'm not sure what you're referring to by "forced updating"; the W10 upgrade or just regular updates?
It doesn't initiate the system shutdown command or at least doesn't wait long enough to allow programs like Outlook to safely shutdown so I've had corrupted mail files that needed to be rebuilt because of it.
Further more, LanDesk has a vulnerability scanner and remote administration utility that are both always running. On top of that we use McAfee's virus and malware scanner and firewall. Cisco's Web Security Agent that monitors all network traffic. And a product called WebSense which as near as I can tell logs everything you do in browser.
We deal with PCI, PII, and HIPPA related information though and they pretty much require this kind of nonsense.
Idk, the whole Windows 10 "spying" and "forced" update policies seems insignificant by comparison.
A blank W10 installation with Avast is blazingly fast and quite reasonable with update handling. A lot has changed since Vista, or even 7 and 8.
On the macs, there's an auto-updater which forces a restart with a countdown, no way to stop it. Its not by Apple for sure, based on how jankey it looks, but terminating the process will prevent the restart. The worst is spyware which randomly spins up one of the CPUs to 100% for 10 mins every few hours while it runs du.
The spyware on my personal phone so that I can read corporate email is pretty asinine though.
