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Microsoft Forces Desktop Search On Windows Update
An anonymous reader writes "The Register is reporting that the blogosphere is alight with accusations of Microsoft forcing Windows Desktop Search on networks via the 'automatic install' feature of Windows Update — even if they had configured their systems not to use the program. Once installed, the search program began diligently indexing C drives and entire networks slowed to a crawl."
Is it still isn't very good compared to Google desktop indexing.
Welcome to Live Search, NSA Edition
[_______________] [search]
( ) the web
(o) all computers running Windows
[X] force update
[X] slow down computers
[ ] obey law / constitution
[X] forward trade secrets to us corps
Windows Update, you're the whore
Who makes my computing such a chore
I can't take this shit anymore
Woo woo be doo
Windows Update, you make me sore,
When I disable you, you ignore!
Windows Update, you're the bane of my existence, it's true!
Doo doo doo doo, doo doo
Every day when I
Make my way to the workstation
I find a little fella who's
downloaded some new MS aberration
Chunk-a-lunk-a-bluescreen!
Windows Update, you're a cunt
And I'm not sure I could be more blunt
Windows Update, I'm awfully cross at you.
Every day when I
Make my way to the workstation
I find a little fella who's
downloaded some new MS aberration
Windows Update, you're a cunt
And I'm not sure I could be more blunt
Windows Update, I'm awfully sick of -
Windows Update, I'd like stick a brick in -
Windows Update, I'm gonna download Ubuntu!
Doo doo, be doo
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Facts are not welcome here. Please edit your post to include some anti-Microsoft comments.
I'd remain anonymous if I used that awful offal word "blogosphere" too. Blagh!
-Ralph Blog
(Ok, not really, that was a pseudonym, I'm joking. OW! STOP IT!)
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
I think you'll find that the Desktop Search is completely inseparable from the desktop and that the latter would be rendered completely useless if it is uninstalled. Just like IE is.
Using openSUSE instead of Windows since 9th of October, 2007 and liking it.
I think in the next update, the search index will become remotely searchable... and in the update after that, the access priviledges will be extended to the Microsoft IP range.
Gees, we have better quality control where I work. and we don't have any.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Relax. We're not interested in your 1.08GB Hello Kitty porn collection.
-- Microsoft
Gah, it will index my porn! I don't want it to do that, it will make it easier for my wife to find it. Please god, don't let it index my porn.
Note: This post was only partially tongue in cheek. I don't really care if my wife finds my porn.
"Ridiculus!!!!!"
Professor Lupin, is that you?
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
Rename all your Porn to "How to build a deck." "How to fix an engine."
That will guarantee she doesn't look at it.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
"How to fix the cable"
"How to clean a pool"
"How to deliver pizza"
Why is your porn on an unencrypted, easily accessible volume that your wife has rights on? Huh? I don't get it....
Yeah, yeah, I see it's tongue in the cheek, but my data is inaccessible for my wife. She has no business in there, and neither have I in her data.
I don't get it. I am sure millions of slashdotters are scratching their head too. If you have porn, why do you need a wife?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
You clearly are not married...
*sigh*
Q: Did you know that there is a food out there that will stop a woman from wanting sex?
A: Its' called "Wedding Cake"
*sigh*
Link, please.
;-)
dragonhawk@iname.microsoft.com
I do not like Microsoft. Remove them from my email address.