[KLUG Advocacy] XP SP1

[John Bridleman]

* Robert G. Brown (bob@acm.org) wrote:
> All of this "auto-update" stuff short-cicuits this kind of rigorous 
> system maintenance, and places the administrator in the position of not
> really knowing what the configuration is if [when] something adverse 
> haapens. This can be **very** serious [human lives have been lost over
> this kind of error].

I hate to be the one to defend Redmond on this but you don't have to run the auto update "feature". The network administrator has the ability to turn that off and can push whatever updates they want down to the workstation.

> Signing this into a licence is... I can't think of the words... perhaps 
> criminal negligence covers it, but I'm not certain.

Morally, maybe. Legally? I doubt it.
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John Bridleman / www.bridleman.org