How Windows Update Keeps Itself Up-to-Date
http://blogs.technet.com/mu/archive/...p-to-date.aspx

"Bruce Chambers" wrote in message
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| Adam Albright wrote:
| On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:05:43 -0600, Bruce Chambers
| wrote:
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| Silicon neuron wrote:
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| Microsoft has begun patching files on Windows XP and Vista without
users'
| knowledge, even when the users have turned off auto-updates.
|
| Actually, this is *not* being done _without_ user consent. Just the
| opposite. Every user of each operating systems has been given advance
| notice that such things could happen, and has consented to it.
|
| Read the Vista EULA. Section 7 makes it clear that this could happen:
|
| Yea sure, and I bet most people aren't aware that buried deep in the
| EULA Microsoft claims the right to your first born and anybody in
| Redmond above a certain rank can have sex with your wife or girl
| friend if a there's a fifth Saturday in any month. Better check your
| calendar. ;-)
|
|
|
| Sarcasm aside, I'm glad to see that for once you agree that the EULA
| does so stipulate and that all users have given their consent. It's not
| often you let facts get in the way of your rabid anti-Microsoft stance.
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| Bruce Chambers
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