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Windows 7 updates do nothing useful

No change there then
Friday, 20 February 2009, 11:34

MICROSOFT WILL START rolling out a batch of five sytem updates for PCs running the 7000 build of the W7 beta from February 24th.

But the manual downloads, which will be notified via Windows Update, will simply replace existing system files with unmodified duplicates.

It's all part of the beta testing programme and is designed to make sure that update content delivery is working properly.

L'Inq
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Testing, eh?

So they are testing that it can update files with no changes in them... I wonder if they can also update files when it actually changed.

posted by : Morten, 20 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Turns OFF Audio....

On This, MicroVolle' Shoots Over Users' Head, Taking What You SomeHow got Installed on Your Own, Rehashes it as Update, Takes original You Amazinzgly got working & saves result for further developement, Yet Audio is NO GO. Turns OFF Audio (by using media Center preinstalled video), Offers NO Correction & Has Prevented ANY Further Updating due to NO Longer having Nt6 MCE Number That Machine interacts with. Smart of 7 to steal working software, poor on your part, left with NO Audio. TS Drashek

posted by : Ultee'Stupidor, 20 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Twat

Piss off Drashek. Troll elsewhere S.V.P

posted by : get lost, 20 February 2009 Complain about this comment
drashek the gimp

I wish someone hacked drasheks PC to disable his translator since it clearly doesn't do it's job properly. 98% of it is unintelligible gibberish. TheInq should invest in some tutoring in the English language for the sanity of the readers.

posted by : Scyphe, 20 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Testing

Come on people! Bashing Microsoft for actually TESTING things in a beta product now? Give me a break! Are we that childish that we now have to make fun of a beta product going through the rigamarole of testing? Yeesh!

As for Drashek... Why isn't he banned or something by now? He doesn't make any sense and is just plain annoying! Most of the time I see him comment on an article and I no longer bother reading the comments, it is just that annoying!

posted by : tfontaine, 20 February 2009 Complain about this comment
coherent for a change

Actually, for once I found Drashek to be quite coherent and understandable in his comment - no need to bash him here.

posted by : Steve, 20 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Drashek is a bot, you idiots.

Probably programmed with some kind of Markov Chain algorithm.

posted by : justme, 21 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Markov Algorithm?

Douchebag algorithm, you mean.

more to the point of the article: what is there to fix? Windows 7 is awesome and works great. MS is winning big points with me, right up until they inevitably botch something. hopefully they make it something non critical

posted by : saveusjeebus, 21 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Vista SE can only go up

After vista there is no other way to go than up. (ignoring XP)
Way is it called windows 7 instead of Vista SE (second edition)

posted by : kedas, 21 February 2009 Complain about this comment
As The Old Song Says

"Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'", Billy Preston, 1975.

Sums up 7 pretty well.

posted by : Doug Glass, 21 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Widows 7 , Service pack for Vits, but worse

Just ran builds 7000, and 7077 for Vista. Crap. Just crap. Like the office ribbon, all the enhancements suck and are forced with no options like a classic start menu.

The era of big names behind big operating systems is coming to a close apparently, because nothing Linux-based UIs, Windows or OS X is interesting at all. In fact, the biggest change in UIs came from a damn Nintendo with the WII.

This stuff sucks, its a rip off to have to pay for a service pack, and this new "more powerful" "better" piece of crap cant even emulate a legacy start menu? Honestly, how can Dave Cutler not go on a murderous rampage - he should kill the marketing retards responsible for this stupid trash.

Windows 7. Sucks. Boring, nothing new, and its a pay for service pack scheme and on top of it all it removes features and treats legacy applications like crap. Some power, so much power that older apps dont work. Stupid.

FOAD Microsoft. This is bad that 7077 has nothing in it over Vista, nothing.

posted by : Mick Russom, 11 April 2009 Complain about this comment
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