Hmmm,
I cannot see what advantage might Microsoft get from this move, the most it can get is to increase the number of people "hating" it's policies and increasing traffic on their servers.
I guess that most 56k users (which are still much more than MS appears to estimate) and all those people that have PC's not connected to the Internet (besides some that are connected) won't like this.
However, I also cannot see why cannot Autopatcher be transformed (as it should have been in the beginning, IMHO) in an app capable of downloading all updates publicly available from Microsoft's servers to a local "master" PC, from which a techician, support personnel or end-user can, through network or CD/DVD deploy the updates to other computers.
A thing that deserves a comment is undoubtedly the self-appointed definition of the (anonymized) author of the "take down notice":
http://www.autopatch...takedown-noticeas
Internet Investigator.
(please note the capital "I" in "Investigator")
The definition of investigator:
http://www.thefreedi...om/investigatorseems not to comprehend:
"someone that after more than 4 (four) years of public availability of something, finds it"
A much better definition would be
Internet naive:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/naive(or to give more relevance to his/her professionality,
Internet Naive)
jaclaz
