Presentation Update Interrupt Block

During presentations at the local, state and national level, from small classrooms to huge convention halls, I see this often. In the middle of a presentation, over the presenter's slide pops a dialog asking if you would like to update some software now. Of course not! This is the middle of a presentation.

Some people use elaborate systems of shutting down all updaters (complicated) or Internet access (not always desirable) or creating super-clean user accounts for presentations, but this should not be necessary. Presentation software, be it Powerpoint or Keynote or Prezi or whatever, should automatically block these update requests until after the presentation is over. If operating systems do not allow such a block, then they should be rewritten so they do.

When we go to a movie, we anticipate sitting through the entire film without being asked if we want to have the projector software updated. The same should be true of any presentation.