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- dawngrrl, on 03/20/2008, -0/+3Bad monkey! If that was MS people would be screaming.
- LilBambi, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1People are screaming actually. And after Safari's Zero Day exploit 2 minute take down of the MacBook Air, I wouldn't want Safari on a Windows computer at all!
Pushing an optional browser through a Security Update mechanism is ludicrous. - cquinnd, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1I don't know what apps you use...
That's just how Windows software *used to* work... in rare cases. Most commercial Windows software
warns you before doing updates because its an opportunity to upsell you on their latest product. Free and shareware apps will remind you to check for the latest version, but usually will not update automatically to save their own bandwidth costs on the back end. The only apps I know that try to update themselves automatically are spyware, antispyware and antivirus utils and game/app distribution engines like Steam; all of which (except the spyware) have the option to turn off automatic updates. - philoking, on 03/20/2008, -0/+0@ colincornaby: Right, and Microsoft makes IE7 an optional update through Windows Update and the world cries foul. I am sure that we have a 80%/20% ratio to your bitchiness vs my whining :)
- colincornaby, on 03/20/2008, -3/+3Then tell Apple Software Update to ignore Safari updates. Problem solved! And you don't even have to write a whiney blog post about it.
- deadbaby, on 03/20/2008, -1/+1That's just how Windows software works. It's becoming a rarity to find any app that doesn't do this type of stuff. For whatever reason Windows users accept it so Apple knows this is a zero-risk proposition. If even 10% of iTunes users end up using Safari they're going to make a truck load of cash on Google Search kickbacks.
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