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...
automatic updates
enterprise it
group policy
home edition
intune
metered connection
microsoft store
offline installation
pausewindow
security defaults
software distribution
staged rollout
update governance
update management
user control
windows 10
windows 11
windows update
winget
