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Microsoft SUS
Microsoft Software Update Services
This is a set of services (aptly named SUS) that run on a LAN server that will download the updates and then farm them out to the network clients.
Is it just me or is this a case of Microsoft saying "We make shit. Now have some more crap to help fix the pre-existing shit."
What a fantastic age we live in where the software that runs the computers that we (and the government) rely on is so flawed that an update server is required to keep things running smoothly.
Fuck making better software, just release crappy patches for shitty software, as 90% of everything is crap why try to do it right? By the way. XP 'Service Pack' 1a is available...good to see they screwed up the first release.
This brings me to another point: the Micro$cum website. You need a bloody Masters Degree to find what the hell it is that you want! Is it too much to ask that there be easy to navigate directory of the various areas of the site?
The other day I was downloading something from the site, I went back the next day and went to get the second file. The site had been changed and it took me 45mins to find the same bloody page!
Now. Micro$cum make a fairly easy to navigate and use Operating System (its one main advantage over UNIX/Linux/BSD products), but how the fuck did the web site (something that puts forward a representation of the company to the public) become so bloody difficult and illogical to use?
Is a decent site map too much to ask? Apparently so.
When looking for information of various products (eg. BizTalk Server) it is also too much to ask for a plain English description. Instead of a description you get some bloody propaganda about the product, not what it actually does. I wouldn't but from a companty that evades the exceedingly obvious questions like: "What does you software do?" "What functions does it perform?" Not to mention: "How secure is it?"
But not only this, Micro$cum force us to use their crap. When you install Windows you get several applications that you cannot remove. Try and actually uninstall Internet Explorer or stop it from taking over varying aspects of the OS. Disabling Messenger can be almost as bad. Far be it for me to jump on the Linux bandwagon but at least you can uninstall whatever the hell you want, configure what you like and custoise the hell out of the rest of it. Admittedly a fair bit of technical knowledge is required, but the uninstallation of unwanted software is easy.
As if that were not enough Micro$cum force its users to use the exceptionally dodgy Service Packs. NT SP 6 nuked some part of NT4 and was replaced by NT SP 6a not more than three days later. If you want to use DirectX 9 in Windows XP then you need to upgrade using the Service Pack. Some of the more knowledgable users will notice that the redistibutable DirectX 9 installer is on most magazine CD's and on new release games. But Micro$oft also claim that the J2RE can only be installed via the Service Pack but going to the Sun website will allow you to download J2RE. Another misdirection from Micro$oft. I might also point out that there is a XP SP 1a.
Well.....that feels better.
You have just been reading another Brain Fart from Grant
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