* Posts by Anonymous Canard

3 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Nov 2011

Apple screws UK disties, punts just 13,000 iPads to channel

Anonymous Canard
Unhappy

Could be worse...

...if they used DHL you wouldn't be able to find the status on the web site, and if (by error) it was delivered as expected it would be damaged. Most likely it would be returned to the depot with an 'unable to deliver' status even if you were home all day, and returned to the sender without further notification.

Windows 8 aims to make security updates less painful

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@Ken...

Thanks, helped me to understand the process.

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Absolutely.

What little Windows I still do is based in the XP world, but I find it extremely rude that MS decide when I should reboot my system, and nag me incessantly until I do it. Trickling down patches in the background is OK, as well as informing me when critical fixes should be installed, but when to implement them is my decision.