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Microsoft wants Automatic Update for Windows

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the brace-yourself-for-trouble dept.

Edward Dao writes "After the embarassment of last week's blaster worm, Microsoft is weighing the possibility of automatic update. Microsoft not only wants to upload the latest patch on to users' computer but also installing it for them." This will work out really well for everyone I'm sure. Yikes! Can I at least press 'Ok' first?

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  1. Breaking news! UN bombed! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Breaking news!

    UN bombed. Scores of casualties! The military is sealing off the site!

  2. Three != scores by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Scores? Sorry, but 3 is not "scores." Damn fucking iraqis!! We go in there to help save their ass and this is how they repay us? Fuck, I say we leave and let them clean up the mess. Bastards!

    1. Re:Three != scores by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Well, you know, this is part of the White Man's Burden Rudyard Kipling was talking about...

      Besides, if you really were an American (instead of just prentending to be a stereotypical "stupid, foul-mouthed American") you'd know that the word "casualties" includes not only the dead (three) but also the wounded (scores).

    2. Re:Three != scores by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      According to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/31638 77.stm

      Blast hits UN building in Baghdad

      The blast tore away part of the building
      An explosion has ripped through the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, causing scores of casualties and injuring the top UN envoy to Iraq.

      casualties = injured
      dead != casualties 3 dead maybe, but plenty more injured

  3. Are you the same fireduck who used to go on efnet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    no text

  4. The first step by Dictator+For+Life · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Your sig:

    yes, i am a leftwing whiner

    Realizing that you have a problem is the first step on the road to recovery.

    That's a joke, son. ;-)

    --

    DFL

    Never send a human to do a machine's job.

  5. Re:fudgefactor7 just got taken to school by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now puff out that chest, like the proud ape you are!