Re: vista update

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:03:58 -0400, ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> chose to
bless us with the following wisdom:

In article <461f0217$0$9921$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

ZnU wrote:
In article <1176431260.469055.285070@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"ed" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 12, 6:52 pm, ZnU <z...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <c8ot13dskupnb7vk4973vaf6oe3s3ef...@xxxxxxx>,
Mayor of R'lyeh <mayor.of.rl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
Which is exactly what you get if you don't choose to apply updates
automatically.
IIRC, what you get in that case is the system downloads but doesn't
install updates. There's no option to download and install updates but
not reboot, which is how I would *expect* the automatic option to work.
but not rebooting doesn't complete installation of some updates, eh?

You mean it doesn't make them active, or it doesn't actually finish
installing them?

If the latter... why? I can't think of when that has ever been the case
in OS X. (Except for firmware updates, of course, but those aren't
actually OS X updates.)

for now, just change the option to download, but not install updates
and be done with it.

in the long run, look for more apps to take advantage of vista's
restart manager api (the new version of office takes advantage of it
as an example).

Fine, but if an app doesn't respond to a request to quit, the default
should be to leave it open, or maybe to ask the user if it should be
killed. Not to kill it with no prompting.


That is your opinion. Just yours. Don't state it
like a fact.

Apparently you, like Mayor, but into the ludicrous concept that
everything is a matter of personal opinion.

Actually I never said that. I said that wholly subjective things are a
matter of personal opinion. Whether or not yellow shirts are good
looking is a matter of personal opinion. Whether or not a weld is
strong is not a matter of personal opinion.

Even whether losing data is superior to not losing data.

Actually in this case it would be a choice between who is responsible
for the settings a user has put in place on his machine. I say the
user while you want to blame Microsoft for not providing the choice
that, in your personal opinion, they should have.



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