M$–Gottalove’em…

…or not.

So, knowing full well that M$ had a BUNCH of “out of cycle” patches in the channel, I left the Win7 “side” of this computer on last night and… as expected, M$ rudely rebooted it after updating with a humongous number of patches, most designed to patch the on-cyle patches released earlier this month.

Oh. Well. I’m running the Win7 release candidate so I can be useful to early-adopters and new computer buyers this fall. It’s not bad, but since it is a test release, I’m allowing M$ to update it “at will” instead of taking a more conservative approach and choosing my own time to update, and which updates to allow.

So far, no updates have introduced unbearable problems, but M$’s record there isn’t all roses, as this out-of-cycle buncha updates demonstrate.