Microsoft has quietly removed the long-standing, user-facing option to permanently switch off automatic app updates in the Microsoft Store for many consumer devices, replacing it with a pause-only model that forces automatic updates to resume after a short, fixed interval (commonly one through...
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Microsoft has quietly changed the Microsoft Store’s update behavior so that, for many consumer devices, the long‑standing, user-facing option to permanently turn off automatic app updates no longer persists; instead the Store now offers only time‑limited pause windows (commonly one to five...
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