SD>Hello, All.

SD>Just some friendly advice:

SD>In the 20+ years I have been running Microsoft Windows off and on, I have
SD>-never- had a problem with a single Microsoft-issued update except for a
SD>service pack on a 64-bit system (which was fixed soon after its release) and
SD>even that affected less than 5% of the entire Windows userbase.

Sean,

In 1996 I had Dial Up Internet through a local ISP for about 4 months
and then dropped the account, I was using Win3.1 then.

Around 1998 I got a Win95 laptop and signed up with another local Dial
Up ISP for a few months.

Later I got a desktop with WIN98SE and in December 2005 I started using
DSL on it and later on had the W95 laptopon DSL also.

I never got a Update from Microsoft during all that time.

I've only started receiving them for my XP and Vista boxes after being
prompted to get WU.

One thing MS got right with Vista is that I can get WU while logged on
as a Standard User.     Hooray for MS!

I can't do that logged on as a Limited User in XP, WU is only available
for a XP Administrative User, and as I understand it that leaves a XP
computer exposed to those Evil hacker folks that want to cause harm to
peoples computers when the computer is on the internet.

SD>Realize also if you do not have the latest updates your antivirus/antimalwar
SD>software may not work at its most efficient state.

I would had thought that the antivirus/antimalware software, if it
is updated, would catch anything on the computer even if it hadn't been
to Windows Update recently.

But there I go thinking again.

SD>I have watched this subject banter on and on in here for years and I've shak
SD>my head at some of the silliness that's discussed.  Think of this logically:
SD>Microsoft didn't want you to fix things, they wouldn't issue updates, right?

I wish Microsoft would take the time to make sure that what new OS or
other software they are creating has been made as perfect as they could
make it before selling it.

I can see MS sending out updates to fix something that the Evil hacker
folks have done to their software.

I still think MS can't wait to release their Not Quite Ready software on
the public and businesses to create income to keep MS going, and then
having to send out updates to fix those things.

I still feel like MS thinks the buyers of their software are their GAMMA
TESTERS.

Silliness?

I have only touched a couple of Win7 machines and wonder why MS had to
change everything around to confuse owners that had previously used MS
OSs.

And they are going to do it again with whatever they will call Windows8
and the future Windows9 when they release them for sale.   UGH!


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