For the Windows Ping List... Windows Update costs team the game... PING!
By the way, the team that was disqualified actually won the game, but of course that didn't count...
For the Windows Ping List... Windows Update costs team the game... PING!
What a stupid rule
Rut-row!
Just a couple of weeks ago I was waiting on a Taxi to take me to the Airport. With about 15 minutes to go I get online to make sure my flight is on time. When I go to shut downn my computer it starts doing that “update” thing. Complete with warnings about “DO NOT SHUT OFF YOUR COMPUTER!!”
But I want to put my Laptop in my safe, and I have to close it to do that. Fortunately, it finished about two minutes before the Taxi arrived. But I was so flustered that I forgot to change from my reading glasses to my outdoor glasses. So I spent the whole trip in a fog.
So....what happens if you do shut your computer off while it’s updating? I can’t believe it would be anything too terrible.
Driving sports display screens is not a job for Windows. It's a job for Linux. With automatic updates turned off, obviously. So, if it was working yesterday, it will work today, for sure.
Blaming MS for their own incompetence. Only way to run the scoreboard is from a PC and they only had one?
For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, “If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.”
In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue.
For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single “This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation” warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask “Are you sure?” before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You’d have to press the “Start” button to turn the engine off.”
That’s hilarious. Microsoft definitely made some fans there.
Not Windows fault. They should change the update options and make sure they apply updates periodically.
And anything critical should not be using a laptop.
It's an end user client OS. Windows Server is an oxymoron.