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Should MS open up Windows Update to 3rd parties?
SKA:
Monogamy (just MS) preferred to polygamy(all ISVs messing with your PC)
This may well lead MS / ISVs "to charge users" for Windows Update , who will do this for free ?
SKA
Renegade:
The single biggest barrier is one of trust. How well do you trust the 3rd party not to do something evil? And how much responsibility do you want to take for distributing something you didn't write yourself?
-40hz (February 07, 2011, 01:50 PM)
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+1
It would be just nutty for MS to allow other ISVs. Autoupdate viruses? Hmmm... too risky.
There are enough autoupdater components out there already, so there's no need for Windows update to be used by anyone except MS.
f0dder:
Renegade: the whole point would be getting rid of all those FSCKING LAME "so ein ding mussen ich auch haben" 3rd-party auto-update tools, and have one centralized & stream-lined process to handle all updates. It would be very++ nice for the end-users.
Ath:
Renegade: the whole point would be getting rid of all those FSCKING LAME "so ein ding mussen ich auch haben" 3rd-party auto-update tools, and have one centralized & stream-lined process to handle all updates. It would be very++ nice for the end-users.
-f0dder (February 08, 2011, 02:54 AM)
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Isn't that where DCUpdater comes in and fills a niche? All can conform to that standard as it's quite easy to setup and use. Maybe the UI could use a little W7 sauce to make the Apple fanboys using Windows a bit less unhappy, but it has a pretty much the same use-scheme as Windows Updates already.
f0dder:
Isn't that where DCUpdater comes in and fills a niche?-Ath (February 08, 2011, 03:07 AM)
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DCU is better than every DoCo tool by different authors having their own autoupdater, but it's still Yet Another Autoupdater when viewed in the bigger picture...
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