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Re: Microsoft Update - Doing something right!

Tommy Carlier — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:46:08 GMT

Now there's the difference with Apple Update: in Microsoft Update, it's an optional update that you have to select manually if you want it. It's not selected by default.

Re: Microsoft Update - Doing something right!

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:11:15 GMT

I have it too without ever having installed it

Re: Microsoft Update - Doing something right!

Bas — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:19:10 GMT

I definitely got Silverlight 1.0 as an optional update.

Re: Microsoft Update - Doing something right!

joem83 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:45:22 GMT

Just checked on a clean machine, had to install XP for testing. In the Microsoft Update Page, there was no Silverlight option at all. I then installed Silverlight, then the option became available

Re: Microsoft Update - Doing something right!

GoddersUK — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:32:54 GMT

joem83 wrote:
I have checked this on several machines. Silverlight is not installed on any machine, if it is not already installed. Flash was updated, because the flash player included in the OS had a security problem

Under "Software - optional".

Definatley wasn't installed on this machine before because it is a clean install.

Re: Microsoft Update - Doing something right!

joem83 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:18:17 GMT

I have checked this on several machines. Silverlight is not installed on any machine, if it is not already installed. Flash was updated, because the flash player included in the OS had a security problem

Re: Microsoft Update - Doing something right!

GoddersUK — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:43:33 GMT

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop wrote:
the DOJ and european antitrust wouldn't like that.

Screw them [6]

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop wrote:
the update is only for adobe flash 4 that was bundled with XP.

And I'd got my hopes up too :(

Re: Microsoft Update - Doing something right!

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:40:29 GMT

GoddersUK wrote:

The first was that Silverlight 1.0 was being pushed out. This is a great way to spread it to the masses. The next step is to make it high priority so that it gets pushed out via Automatic Update.

the DOJ and european antitrust wouldn't like that.

GoddersUK wrote:

The second was in among all the Windows security updates was an Adobe update for Flash Player. It's great to see microsoft beging to push third party software (not hardware) updates out over Windows

the update is only for adobe flash 4 that was bundled with XP.