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to: Geo
from: Jeff Shultz
date: 2005-08-09 18:57:24
subject: Re: August Patches

From: Jeff Shultz 

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:35:24 -0400, Geo wrote:
>
> Just gotta ask, what is it about WU that makes it worth it to MS to have
> folks download the same patches over and over again for each machine
> instead of just downloading one exe and applying it to all your machines
> like you do with a service pack? The amount of work to make a combined
> patch has to be less expensive than the bandwidth for 600 million machines
> to download individually, no?
>
> Geo.

Easier for people on dialup connections?

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