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Stealthy Windows Update Raises Serious Concerns
UniversalVM writes "What is the single biggest issue that bothers open source advocates about proprietary software? It is probably the ability of the vendor to pull stunts like Microsoft's recent stealth software update and subsequent downplaying of any concerns. Their weak explanation seems to be a great exercise in circular logic: 'Had we failed to update the service automatically, users would not have been able to successfully check for updates and, in turn, users would not have had updates installed automatically or received expected notifications.' News.com is reporting that all of the updated files on both XP and Vista appears to be in windows update itself. This is information that was independently uncovered by users and still not released by Microsoft."
Give in to the Dark Lord and life will be predictable and simple. Freedom is for babies.
Table-ized A.I.
The Linux updates tend to add functionality or features and are less "holy crap fix that huge bug we left in there" type updates. 99.998% of the Windows updates are "fix this problem while creating this other problem" type updates.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
"Fixed" in the sense of what should have been done to your father, perhaps.
"Who will update the updaters?"