http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/archives/2006/10/12/onecare-why-do-i-have-to-install-updates-automatically/ General musings and programming stuff Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:02:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/archives/2006/10/12/onecare-why-do-i-have-to-install-updates-automatically/#comment-71383 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:08:01 +0000 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/archives/2006/10/12/onecare-why-do-i-have-to-install-updates-automatically/#comment-71383 That's a funny story, even if I can imagine you wouldn't agree ;-) That’s a funny story, even if I can imagine you wouldn’t agree

]]> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/archives/2006/10/12/onecare-why-do-i-have-to-install-updates-automatically/#comment-71379 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:50:23 +0000 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/archives/2006/10/12/onecare-why-do-i-have-to-install-updates-automatically/#comment-71379 I left my PC copying 6Gb of data to another machine on the network. I came back to find that One Care had attempted to update itself and decided it needed a reboot. So in the meantime it declared itself unsafe, blocked all network access - stopping the data transfer - and left a little message up saying it would reboot in 2 hours 38 minutes... Its hard to say who is more stupid - Microsoft software designers or the people they imagine use Microsoft products. I left my PC copying 6Gb of data to another machine on the network. I came back to find that One Care had attempted to update itself and decided it needed a reboot. So in the meantime it declared itself unsafe, blocked all network access - stopping the data transfer - and left a little message up saying it would reboot in 2 hours 38 minutes…
Its hard to say who is more stupid - Microsoft software designers or the people they imagine use Microsoft products.

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