Microsoft Quietly Previews PC Advisor Repair Tool

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 12, 2008 @09:41AM from the give-that-bob-a-blowtorch-and-a-monocle dept.

notthatwillsmith writes "On Friday, Microsoft invited members of the Windows Feedback Program to try out a preview of a new application, the Microsoft PC Advisor. The new tool promises to 'continuously monitor your PC for problems and give you the solutions to fix them, in real time.' After testing on several Vista machines with a variety of problems, Maximum PC has written a full report on the Microsoft PC Advisor. The short version? Like every other 'PC Repair' tool they've tested, the new apps signal-to-noise ratio is quite bad, and it misses the obvious and important problems, like out-of-date videocard drivers."

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Re:fp by Ethanol-fueled · 2008-10-12 09:47 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Speaking of flushing spent turds out of a toilet, isn't Microsoft a little too late to the already-overdone "Windows diagnostic tools" arena?

also RTFA and you discover that you will have to fill out a "10-minute survey" just to get tools that others have been providing for free.

Microsoft:" Okay, we're fucked. keep pandering to the idiots and hope that none of them see compiz-fusion."