Comments on: Microsoft shuts down popular Windows patching package, AutoPatcher

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:02:00 +0000

Let him troll. He’s telling the truth. Windows IS crap. And this is coming from almost 20 years of using it.

As for Autopatcher…

Microsoft probably did it because they realized a few things:

1. That Windows really is shitty and if they had to keep making patches for every flaw they carelessly baked into Windows they would not have enough time to rip off features and software from Mac OS and Linux for the next version of Windows.

2. The product offered nothing in the way of actually making users and vendors hopelessly dependent on them. If they’re not going to make money off it, they must have some value in it illegally beating a market into submission.

3. It wasn’t shitty enough to fit in with Windows.

You must pick two of these three. However, all three are extremely likely.

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By: Calvin

Calvin — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:28:49 +0000

@blabla: This is a MICROSOFT blog. You’re just a troll.

By: blabla

blabla — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:45:17 +0000

bla bla..just dont use WINDOWS. its a piece of crappy shyt any way. switch to MAC or LINUX

By: Russ

Russ — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:17:30 +0000

One would think that MS would have cooperated with Autopatcher. Wannabe and experimental patchers will start popping up, resentful of MS with all the wrong sequences. It will end up reflecting on MS as Windows being the piece of Shiite that it really is.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:51:47 +0000

I needed autopatcher for my Vista i cannot update it

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:00:40 +0000

Then there is the fact that the Microsoft update process is entirely too complex, and not even Microsoft understands it. When my MS Update (which I always did in custom mode, and carefully) quit working, I thought it might be fun to see if Microsoft could solve the problem. First, though, I went to the MS IT tech site and found the files you need to build the CD for updates for a month for a specific OS. Of course, I did that.

Four months and some 200 emails (each way) later, MS tech support was up to the third iteration of the same lame diagnostics, suggested by the fifth tech support person, none of whom spoke English as a first language, which you can work around, but none of them knew anything much, either.

I finally fixed it myself.

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:35:26 +0000

@DAz: Windows Update is not crap for the majority of users, but it might be inefficient for some.