Microsoft is coming under fire for reportedly delivering a Windows fix without telling it’s users about it…even if you opted to be notified first. The revelation, first reported at Seattlepi.com, says Microsoft may now reconsider the way they update our machines.
A Windows product manager conceded Microsoft “should have been clear in our explanation of this process earlier,” but the practice has raised serious concerns over privacy: “Writing files to a user’s PC without notice is behavior usually associated with hacker websites,” said an article in newsletter Windows Secrets. “The question being raised is, ‘Why is Microsoft operating in this way?’”
Listen Bill, I liked the Seinfeld ads, and I really dig the “I’m a PC” ads, but I can’t have you sneaking into my house in the middle of the night and messing around with my computers. Steve Jobs wouldn’t do that, but then again Steve keeps trying to get me to download Safari every time he updates iTunes.
The point is Microsoft, you guys are just starting to dig yourselves out from under a decade’s worth of morass, let’s not complicate it by causing security concerns, cause I just can’t take another I’m a Mac commercial!
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I’m pretty sure I noticed this “secret” update. My computer informed, rather than asked me, that it was updating itself. I recall being somewhat shocked, then feeling vastly less intelligent than the machine. Then hating Windows with a newfound passion. Windows is so confusing in the first place, however, that I didn’t even think M$ was forcing something under my nose. I’m glad someone called them out on it.