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Story: Windows patches may become automatic
Posted by: Peter Munro (Tuesday 2 September 2003, 5:29 PM)
I think this is ridiculous.
I certainly wouldn't want a company that didn't
test its software fully to have access to my PC to install more buggy software. I would rather run the risk of being exposed, and be able to acceptance test software before installing it.
The latest patch for Internet Explorer seems to cause it to crash frequently.
Quite apart from the huge bandwidth/data transfer needed, users would need to be hooked up to the net all the time or suffer lack of access when they did connect.
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Story: Windows patches may become automatic
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Here we go again: A major U.S. firm hops on a cris... Keith E. Risler -
Considering how long it takes to download and impl... David Hoare
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Whilst there are obvious benefits to this idea, it... Anonymous
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This is a ridiculas idea. MS should make the produ... Anonymous
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You want a nice Apple Mac, you do John S. ELrick
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Windows XP comes with a firewall?? I don't think s... Bob Walker
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FAO DAvid Hoare....
The information is available i... Jonathan
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Great, so we have 5 billion computers trying to do... Tony S
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I think this is ridiculous.
I certainly wouldn't w... Peter Munro -
I think that this behaviour should be enabled by d... Andrew MacLachlan
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