According to a story in Bill Gates local newspaper the Seattle Intelligencer, Microsoft says it's reconsidering how it updates a key piece of Windows plumbing after Windows Secrets, a US newsletter, reported that the company delivered fixes over the Internet silently -- not telling PC users even when they had set the operating system to be notified.
The article, in the latest edition of the "Windows Secrets" newsletter, raises questions about the practice, and how it might be used later.
"If Microsoft can change things on your PC, after you've set it up to only take changes when you want them, that gives people a lot of fear for what might happen to their PCs in the future," said Brian Livingston, the newsletter's editorial director.
Only last week SmartHouse noticed that two updates had been made to PCs running the Vista windows operating system. On two PCs several Adobe fonts had been removed from the system resulting in 4Square Media having to re-load the fonts. On another occasion Google settings were nobbled and when we came to re-set the Google software as our prefered search settings, we three times had to re-download the software as each time the Vista system disabled it.
