Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Updates are ready for your computer.
No wonder that Microsoft Vista is so far behind, it seems their engineers are still busy patching holes in XP. I just got 13, yes 13 critical security patched downloaded to my computer.
My gosh, this is computing? On the bright side, I no longer have to be patching things myself, on the flip side, I have to admit that I do not really trust all the stuff that is being installed by Microsoft. Its that purgatory 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' kind of feeling.
I have faith that right before, or maybe during the launching of Microsoft's mega-super-duper OS, the GMen will launch a co-branded OS that will NOT make our machines obsolete overnight. Something light and fluffy which will probably be no more than a web-server running a Google File-System that can run a few of their yummy apps offline while at the same time, sync-ing everything with their web services.
In the meantime, let me close everything I am doing, install the 'updates' that just came in, restart my PC, pray that everything still works, hope that I did not loose any functionality in my programs as I did in that last little IE 'update'.
Yippy dipp-e-dee-doo. Thanks Microsoft, for keeping me safe from the nasty people who would exploit the swiss cheese you call XP. I'm getting a little cynical, I guess the figured I needed to take a break anyways.
UPDATE: It seems I was not the only one who noticed this little bombarment of patches... ElectricNews.net had a great little write-up; as did PC Magazine with a more detailed description of the patches. ¶ 6/13/2006 02:16:00 PM
My gosh, this is computing? On the bright side, I no longer have to be patching things myself, on the flip side, I have to admit that I do not really trust all the stuff that is being installed by Microsoft. Its that purgatory 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' kind of feeling.
I have faith that right before, or maybe during the launching of Microsoft's mega-super-duper OS, the GMen will launch a co-branded OS that will NOT make our machines obsolete overnight. Something light and fluffy which will probably be no more than a web-server running a Google File-System that can run a few of their yummy apps offline while at the same time, sync-ing everything with their web services.
In the meantime, let me close everything I am doing, install the 'updates' that just came in, restart my PC, pray that everything still works, hope that I did not loose any functionality in my programs as I did in that last little IE 'update'.
Yippy dipp-e-dee-doo. Thanks Microsoft, for keeping me safe from the nasty people who would exploit the swiss cheese you call XP. I'm getting a little cynical, I guess the figured I needed to take a break anyways.
UPDATE: It seems I was not the only one who noticed this little bombarment of patches... ElectricNews.net had a great little write-up; as did PC Magazine with a more detailed description of the patches. ¶ 6/13/2006 02:16:00 PM
