{"id":752,"date":"2007-08-14T21:55:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T05:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/14\/updating-windows-what-a-joke\/"},"modified":"2007-08-14T21:56:48","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T05:56:48","slug":"updating-windows-what-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/14\/updating-windows-what-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating Windows &#8212; What A Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the previous post on having to debug Javascript for IE, I&#8217;ve had to run Windows Update. I was shocked to see no less than <strong>85<\/strong> &#8220;high priority&#8221; updates directly coming from Microsoft&#8217;s server&#8230; This is on a fairly updated install of Windows XP running on my Parallels virtual machine&#8230; The last time I ran an update was a couple of months ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/windows_update.jpg\" width=\"178\" height=\"186\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Running Windows Update\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How can people tolerate this kind of B.S. from the largest software maker in the world? Don&#8217;t they spend billions a year on R&#038;D? Here&#8217;s an idea, spend more of that resource on better software&#8230; I can&#8217;t believe I am writing two entries on Microsoft in one day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the previous post on having to debug Javascript for IE, I&#8217;ve had to run Windows Update. I was shocked to see no less than 85 &#8220;high priority&#8221; updates directly coming from Microsoft&#8217;s server&#8230; This is on a fairly updated install of Windows XP running on my Parallels virtual machine&#8230; The last time I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/14\/updating-windows-what-a-joke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Updating Windows &#8212; What A Joke&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-rant","category-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-c8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}