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no more EMS support in XP (Announce)

posted by nidud E-mail, Norway, 14.10.2012, 18:17

> Why should anybody use automatic updates?
I think the auto update function in Windows is good, at least compared to all the others out there (less annoying). For most people it works well, and the majority of them do not understand all the technical details of all these things. Even if you are a developer who does understand it, you still have to install them in order to test if this creates a problem for your application, since your customer probably will.

With regards to the problem described above, they basically convert Windows XP to Vista, and that is a problem: There is a reason why XP become so popular compare to Vista.

There may be issues about the corporate structure of this company, and the monopoly the currently have in this marked, but it is still a business based on trust. If they chose to take advantage of this situation by reducing the functionality of the product you already paid for, they will bad business, and that makes no sense.

The alleged problem with 16-bit code is not new, and they have known about this from the beginning. The ability to block 16-bit code has been around since Win95.

> I always want to know what is installed on my machine
> and to control it.
> You can always go to Microsoft site and manually select
> what is to be installed.
I normally read the headlines of these updates, but I don?t apply much time digging into all the details of all of them. The one in question is supplied with a "Microsoft thanks the following". I haven?t seen this before, but then again, irony is not something you normally expect coming from the US.

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