Can Vista Windows Update Actually Be More Annoying?
Vista's Windows Update didn't see any updates when I fired it up this morning. So, I clicked on the option to manually check for updates. It saw the Patch Tuesday Vista patches after that action. Why didn't it seem them as soon as it fired up? Then, of course, Vista wanted to be rebooted to actually finish installing the patches. Ugh. Vista takes a look time to shutdown and then reboot. Good thing I have multiple computers to work on.
After the reboot Word 2007 decided it wasn't to open a small DOCX file I had been working on. Now what? After futzing a bit, I checked the net and found that there is an Office 2007 SP1 update. I ran Windows Update again and, again, had it manually check for updates. Now, it sees the Office 2007 SP1 update. Why wasn't this detected earlier. To make matters worse, the Office 2007 SP1 update was 251MB large and took a while to download. And, of course, it too required a reboot after installing itself. Why in the world with an application need a reboot to install itself. The only two things I can think of that requires a Linux box to reboot are kernel or driver updates.
This is a broken and time-wasting scenario.