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Title: Microsoft admits Windows Updates principally created to annoy.
Post by: Ken on December 03, 2009, 06:48:25 AM

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This from NewsBiscuit:

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Microsoft has admitted that its regular software updates are ?pranks? largely generated by bored or frustrated programmers. The admission, which follows a three-year investigation by a special US Congressional Committee, has merely confirmed what many computer experts have been saying for some time.

Nigel Drake, a software analyst with Drayton Mann, said: ?Honestly, when was the last time you actually downloaded a ?critical? update or patch from Microsoft, and it made any difference to anything you were doing? The screen doesn?t change, it doesn?t go any faster, it doesn?t stop getting attacked by viruses, it doesn?t boot up quicker, in fact if anything it gets slower and then your whole screen goes black.?

Read the full article HERE (http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2009/12/02/microsoft-admits-windows-updates-principally-created-to-annoy/).












Ps:.. hope you didn't take this too seriously.  :bigteeth:

Title: Re: Microsoft admits Windows Updates principally created to annoy.
Post by: Lesmond on December 03, 2009, 09:45:01 AM

lol almost got me  :bigteeth:

Title: Re: Microsoft admits Windows Updates principally created to annoy.
Post by: Orakk on December 03, 2009, 08:25:10 PM

I like the 'Action Center' pop up in W7. Occasionally beats it's chest to tell me there's 'no current issues detected'.  riteon  :hah:

Title: Re: Microsoft admits Windows Updates principally created to annoy.
Post by: LoneWolf_53 on December 03, 2009, 08:27:36 PM

Quote from: Orakk on December 03, 2009, 08:25:10 PM

I like the 'Action Center' pop up in W7. Occasionally beats it's chest to tell me there's 'no current issues detected'.  riteon  :hah:

That's not to say that there aren't any just that there's none detected.   :belly:

Title: Re: Microsoft admits Windows Updates principally created to annoy.
Post by: Skhilled on December 04, 2009, 08:09:02 AM

Quote from: LoneWolf_53 on December 03, 2009, 08:27:36 PM

That's not to say that there aren't any just that there's none detected.   :belly:

That's M$ for ya. LOL

Title: Re: Microsoft admits Windows Updates principally created to annoy.
Post by: Orakk on December 08, 2009, 09:30:29 PM

Quote from: LoneWolf_53 on December 03, 2009, 08:27:36 PM

Quote from: Orakk on December 03, 2009, 08:25:10 PM

I like the 'Action Center' pop up in W7. Occasionally beats it's chest to tell me there's 'no current issues detected'.  riteon  :hah:

That's not to say that there aren't any just that there's none detected.   :belly:

Given redmond's history for being an online bogan magnet I do get nervous when scam remover apps find nothing.