Re: Still asking why (anything post XP)
Little can bring a system to its needs quicker (ha) than multiple competing applications all running their own update check process every time the system starts
Microsoft could trivially - and perfectly legally - port yum or similar to Windows and get it adopted as the way to do software updates.
This would give Windows much of the update ease we G/L types crow about. It would also give users a single interface to find out what software is on their machines, what is out of date, and a method to update it.
It amazes me that they haven't done so...
Vic.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
