: Speaking of nontrivial amounts of money...
On the same day it tried to refute reports that enterprise customers' PCs were being force-fed the Windows XP desktop search tool, Microsoft Corp. did a turnabout and admitted it had messed up.
Some system administrators, however, were still not convinced that the company is telling a straight story.
Late Thursday night, Bobbie Harder, a program manager on the WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) team, said the update for Windows Desktop Search (WDS) had, in fact, been installed on some machines without administrator approval, and offered an apology.
On Tuesday, Harder said in a post to a company blog, Microsoft revised and released a WDS update package aimed at machines running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 that did not have the desktop search tool installed. The update was supposed to be optional.
I got calls about this from people who understandably thought their machine was infected with a virus. Nice one, ms. :| Nobody wants to download our crappy search bloatware? Too bad. We control the vertical. We control the horizontal. Do you really want to give people a good reason to shut off auto updates?
On the same day it tried to refute reports that enterprise customers' PCs were being force-fed the Windows XP desktop search tool, Microsoft Corp. did a turnabout and admitted it had messed up.
Some system administrators, however, were still not convinced that the company is telling a straight story.
Late Thursday night, Bobbie Harder, a program manager on the WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) team, said the update for Windows Desktop Search (WDS) had, in fact, been installed on some machines without administrator approval, and offered an apology.
On Tuesday, Harder said in a post to a company blog, Microsoft revised and released a WDS update package aimed at machines running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 that did not have the desktop search tool installed. The update was supposed to be optional.
I got calls about this from people who understandably thought their machine was infected with a virus. Nice one, ms. :| Nobody wants to download our crappy search bloatware? Too bad. We control the vertical. We control the horizontal. Do you really want to give people a good reason to shut off auto updates?
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