Windows Update is back in WinXP. Bill gates said about this:
One of the key elements for us is Windows Update. We've decided that we're going to have all defined drivers on the Windows Update site. And we're making Windows Update something that's invisibly easy for the user to go up and get the latest improvements." Here he's talking about a signed driver regime where Microsoft tests and approves vendor-produced drivers, and aside from them going out with the hardware, they get posted in the giant driver pile that Microsoft intends to morph Windows Update into. |
Aside from drivers, Gates sees this Revenge of Windows Update as hosting all "the latest improvements... patches, new drivers, whatever it is, that's part of the PC experience." And of itself that's cool, if you think of it as a giant store where it's easy for you to get any kind of tool, wrench or widget you're going to need, and where all of this stuff has been thoroughly checked, and is of the highest quality.
Hmm don't know about this. Afcourse it's easier if it update automatically, but perhaps I don't want the latest drivers? I don't want microsoft to decide wich driver to use. Personally I think this option can be shut down *somewhere* in windows, else they get to much resistence.
Source: The Register
