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Unintended Consequences – Help We Don’t Need
Microsoft’s update service – unbidden and on the sly – is just the sort of help that we don’t need.
I have just recently become acutely aware of how fragile the entire MS echosystem is for certain applications.
If you use specialized applications such as the the DigiDesign ProTools Digitial Audio Workstation software, you are aware of how tightly wound this sort of software is to the hardware and OS. The slightest of changes, right order of USB and firewire connection, and a considerable amount of magic and supersition keeps the current box running.
For that reason, I keep the XP box that runs that application off the network, and have it set up to download updates when I connect, but not apply the upgrade.
Introduce a friendly overnight “patch” from Redmond, and that configuration has changed. Probably not significantly, probably not for any of thousands of applications. Probably not for ProTools.
But all that I know is that it’s one more element in the mix that I don’t need.
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