Rebecca Norlander - Can everyone be made happy when it comes to updating?
- Posted: Jun 07, 2004 at 3:54 PM
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Rebecca answers an age old question about development, can you make everyone happy?
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I realize that not everyone plays Everquest, or NeverWinterNights, or SWG, or City of Heros, or Ultima Online, or Astaria, or DAOC, or Dungeon Seige, or Sim City, or Asherons Call and AC2 ... Ok I play all these games and the update dialogs often interfere. I usually turn the damn thing off if I remember but sometimes I am blinded by the gaming moment and forget.
Really though I know this is necessary and its likely a good thing. The scheduled stuff ( 2'nd tuesday of the month ) is a decent shot at adding some order to the otherwise chaotic process. Just don't play any games on the second tuesday of the month...
Perhaps there should be a way for it to silently show the dialog, that would be visible if you minimized all windows, then it would show up. Or perhaps a method where you can suppress those kinds of interrupts for a specified amount of time, and after that time they would be turned back on.
I believe though that many consumers will need the more forceful method since many don't realize that a PC to run its best should have regular mantainance. Just a balance needs to be in place. A way for those with experience to choose how Update performs.
Yes, you can.
/Lars.
If all patches are done automaticly, how will you know what patch broke the old code?
On the whole (from seeing RC1) I think SP2 is a big step in the right direction. The notifications should perhaps be a little bit more MSN like and not steal focus but I'm sure that's something tha tcan be tweaked in future.
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