Let's be clear. The complaint wasn't about updating software currently on your system, it was about trying to install programs that you do not have and are completely unrelated to what you do have already installed.
I've never owned a pc built by HP or Dell or anyone else, I've always built my pc's myself. Are you saying the HP you owned would install NEW software you did not already have installed or was updating software on your system already? Also, there is a very easy solution to these so called undocumented programs...hit the start button. On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:37 AM, b_s-wilk <[email protected]> wrote: > Yet again. If this were MS pulling this stunt, they would certainly be >> pilloried. And probably sued by the EU. Where's the outrage here? >> > > I'm outraged that some Windows programs update without informing users! And > our HP notebook came with dozens of undocumented programs installed, not > even a list of software in a ReadMe file. > > Apple doesn't do that. Any program that's listed in Apple Software Update > is a *suggestion* which you can install or ignore. I usually install 1/2 of > their suggestions and delete the rest. Third parties also recommend software > that I might want to install too--or not. > > Must be a really slow day at Ars Technica to bother with such a nonissue. > The editor who came up with the headline should be slapped with a handful of > wet spaghetti. > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
