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Microsoft Forces Shutdown of Autopatcher

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hooray-for-lawyers dept.

kaufmanmoore writes "Posts on Neowin and Autopatcher's site announce Microsoft has forced the closure of the Autopatcher download section. Details are scarce as to the exact reason for the take down after over 4 years of availability, but an official from Microsoft legal says that it has nothing to do with Windows Genuine Advantage. Goodbye to another useful tool that helped sysadmins apply Microsoft's numerous patches."

3 of 290 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Microsoft by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 0, Troll

    There's not? You've not heard of WSUS, apparently. Oh, and why would they be threatened? How many patches exist for clean RHEL systems?

  2. Re:Microsoft by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 0, Troll

    See my post above.

    I use WSUS and WDS(RIS) all the time. WSUS isn't the panacea it is made out to be, and WDS is a god send, when deploying fully patched Windows, but that requires slipstreaming the install, something WSUS doesn't do.

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  3. Re:One down, X to go. by Jugalator · · Score: 1, Troll

    Nice to have - if you're still on Windows, that is.

    By far most are. ;) Sometimes I wonder if some of you live in some sort of alternate universe, because you sure make it sound like it. :)

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