MicroSoft deep in Cow Hocky or BS Vista News Discuss MicroSoft deep in Cow Hocky or BS in the Windows Vista forums; Microsoft Confirms That Its Secret Alterations of Windows Generate Problems - Microsoft has been modifying files in the Windows Vista and Windows XP operating systems without the knowledge or consent of ...

[Snuffy]

Microsoft Confirms That Its Secret Alterations of Windows Generate Problems -
Microsoft has been modifying files in the Windows Vista and Windows XP operating systems without the knowledge or consent of the users that have acquired the products in good faith.
The Redmond company's incognito updates served both to XP and to Vista are an integer part of a long time practice over at Microsoft, targeting Windows Update and are as old as the updating infrastructure that the company has built for its platforms. Nate Clinton, Windows Update Program Manager initially admitted the stealthy updates to Windows but argued that they only benefited the end users and that they caused no harm whatsoever.

Well, Scott Dunn, from Windows Secrets, the editor that originally broke the news about Microsoft's silent Windows updating practices, proved the company wrong. Copies of Windows XP repaired via the options on the disc, prior to the deployment of the secret patches, failed to install all additional updates. Clinton subsequently acknowledged the validity of the problem.

Nothing really NEW. just written so you can understand it and why. Still very interesting.. This has been commonly been call "Workarounds" when for some reason the NEW FILES do not register properly.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Micro...ms-67111.shtml

[Vistanoob]

Its a good thing workarounds are published, but, to me it seems too bad that users have to jump through hoops to fix a problem due to a stealth update. I think some users, who don't read the tech news, may wonder what's broken and why.