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by ricegf on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 03:44:57 AM PDT

After the first bricking of his laptop, my son rolled back to an earlier checkpoint to regain Internet access. The next day, XP re-installed the patch without any apparent acknowledgment from the user, then rebooted without recourse (abruptly ending a better than usual WoW campaign).

If Microsoft rams unwanted updates down its users' collective throats, I'm happy to grant it full blame for not ensuring those updates are compatible with the users' computers first. You can't eat your cake and have it, too.


----- George F. Rice It is better to copy success than to invent mediocrity.
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