http://www.jakeludington.com/life/2008/stupid-software-updates/ Jake on travel, China, food, life and tech Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.jakeludington.com/life/2008/stupid-software-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-11864 fb Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:06:55 +0000 http://www.jakeludington.com/life/2008/stupid-software-updates/#comment-11864 Actually this doesn't seem unreasonable to me. I'm in the software industry myself and a lot of times the main installer will be a different package than updates and because deploying an installer requires lots of testing and QA time we may only update the main installer once in a while and continue to deploy updates (ie patches) more regularly. Deploying a patch means we don't have to go back and spend time testing the main installer as well as the patch. Hope this makes sense. Actually this doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. I’m in the software industry myself and a lot of times the main installer will be a different package than updates and because deploying an installer requires lots of testing and QA time we may only update the main installer once in a while and continue to deploy updates (ie patches) more regularly. Deploying a patch means we don’t have to go back and spend time testing the main installer as well as the patch. Hope this makes sense.

]]> http://www.jakeludington.com/life/2008/stupid-software-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-12818 Jake Ludington’s Digital Lifestyle Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.jakeludington.com/life/2008/stupid-software-updates/#comment-12818 <!--%kramer-pre%-->I downloaded a Microsoft product that needed updating immediately after download. I’ve downloaded media editing suites that have similar practices. My time has value. Waiting for something twice is a waste of my time (not to mention your bandwidth).No Comments Yet »<!--%kramer-post%--> I downloaded a Microsoft product that needed updating immediately after download. I’ve downloaded media editing suites that have similar practices. My time has value. Waiting for something twice is a waste of my time (not to mention your bandwidth).No Comments Yet »

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