content: My experiences are much different than that.  All kinds of anecdotes and opinions can be thrown out! I think the main issue here, though, is one of accountability.  If you silently disable WU and redirect through your own update system, the end user will still be blaming MS for anything that goes right/wrong through the update process.  So if Samsung Update deploys a bad update, who gets the blame and all the support headaches?  It's not Samsung, because the end user didn't opt in and didn't opt out of WU, so they have no idea Samsung is the one running the update process.  That's a really shitty way to do business and breed trust from your customers.