Topic: Microsoft admits Windows Updates principally created to annoy.

[Ken (OP)]

This from NewsBiscuit:

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.?

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

[Lesmond]

lol almost got me  :bigteeth:

[Orakk]

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:

[LoneWolf_53]

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:

[Skhilled]

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

That's M$ for ya. LOL

[Orakk]

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.